linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] create_inode: fix gcc -Wall complaints

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Message-ID: <20140312034841.GC31864@birch.djwong.org>
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:48:41 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	liezhi.yang@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] create_inode: fix gcc -Wall complaints

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:45:39PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:41:10PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > We had several functions that were not returning zero on success.  Fix
> > this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> 
> One additional gcc -Wall nit which I have not yet fixed:
> 
> create_inode.c is using ext2fs_inline_data_init() which is currently a
> private function defined in ext2fsP.h.
> 
> We either need to make this a publically exported interface (in which
> case we have to guarantee that it is stable), or we need to find
> another way to make the right thing happen here.
> 
> Darrick, Robert, do you have any thoughts or suggestions?

I fixed that up in the cppcheck cleanups patch by moving those declarations to
ext2fs.h.  Maybe I should have shoved the patch closer to the head.

--D
> 
> 	       	    	      	    	   - Ted
> 
> P.S.  My bad for not doing a gcc -Wall run on the patches before
> accepting them.  And in the future, I'd appreciate it if people who
> are preparing patches do a "make gcc-wall" and make sure you're not
> making things worse.  There are plenty of bugs that can be turned up
> this way.
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