linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] radeonfb: check return value of sysfs_create_bin

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Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:45:05 +0200
From:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] radeonfb: check return value of sysfs_create_bin_file

Il Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:07:26AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha scritto: 
> On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 01:53 +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> > sysfs_create_bin_file() is marked as warn_unused_result but we don't
> > actually check the return value.
> > Error is not fatal, the driver can operate fine without the files so
> > just print a notice on failure.
> 
> I find this whole business of must check return value for sysfs files to
> be gratuitous bloat. There are many cases (like this one) where we don't
> really care and a printk will just increase the kernel size for no good
> reason.
> 
> Maybe we can have a macro we can use to silence the warning when we
> don't care about the result ? Can gcc do that ?

Ugly macro:

#define UNCHECKED(func) do { if (func) {} } while(0)

maybe it's better to have something like this:

int __sysfs_create_bin_file(...);
inline int sysfs_create_bin_file(...) __attribute__((warn_unused_result));

inline int sysfs_create_bin_file(...) {
        return __sysfs_create_bin_file(...);
}

i.e. both checked and uncheck version of the same function.

Luca
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