linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in drivers/video/aty/radeon

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Date:	Wed, 07 May 2008 14:37:25 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, tony@...eyournoodle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings in
	drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c


On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 21:20 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > > Which should be called WARN, but of course 12,000,000 drivers have
> > > gone and screwed that up with indiscriminate namespace poaching.
> > 
> 
> seems to be only 5 of them; we can move those aside I suppose

In the case of radeonfb, don't bother. Those EDID files aren't used
by anything afaik.

Ben.


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