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

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Date:	Wed, 07 May 2008 15:49:07 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.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 Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:40 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > > (rationale: users tend to not read their dmesg much, but
> WARN_ON()'s do
> > > get noticed)
> > 
> > OK by me, although if we're going to do much more of this it might
> be time
> > to add a WARN_ON which takes (fmt, args...).
> 
> It would make a lot more sense to put the printk and/or WARN_ON inside
> sysfs_create_bin_file rather than in every single caller.

Amen !

Ben.


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