linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]: HVCS char driver janitoring: fix compile warnings

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Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:03:07 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Linas Vepstas <linas@...tin.ibm.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>, "Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa@...ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: HVCS char driver janitoring: fix compile warnings

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:26 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> 
> This is a non-urgent patch. 
> 
> I can't figure out who the upstream maintainer for char drivers 
> is supposed to be. Can this patch be applied? 
> 
> --linas
> 
> This patch removes an pair of irritating compiler warnings:
> 
> drivers/char/hvcs.c:1605: warning: ignoring return value of
> sysfs_create_group declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> drivers/char/hvcs.c:1639: warning: ignoring return value of
> driver_create_file declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> 
> Doing this required moving a big block of code from the bottom 
> of the file to the top, so as to avoid the need for (irritating) 
> forward declarations.

Can you do the move and the fix as two patches? It's very hard to review
in its current form.

cheers

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Michael Ellerman
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