linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Silent compiler warning introduced by commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 (UBI: Unsorted Block Images)

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:44:05 +0200
From:	"S.Çağlar Onur" <caglar@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dedekind@...utronix.de,
	haver@...t.ibm.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silent compiler warning introduced by commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 (UBI: Unsorted Block Images)

Hi;

10 Şub 2008 Paz tarihinde, Jiri Slaby şunları yazmıştı: 
> I think this is not correct. You change the err which caused the failure. You 
> change it even to 0 if it doesn't fail and the whole function will seem like 
> non-failing.

My bad, sorry for not looking carefully. Assuming a refactoring is not desired for just a compiler warning, is following acceptable (this kind of plain messages seems heavily used in vmt.c, so i'm again assuming its OK to use such style)?

commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707 (UBI: Unsorted Block Images) introduced the warning

drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c: In function `ubi_create_volume':
drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c:379: warning: statement with no effect


 drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c
index a3ca225..46410f6 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c
@@ -376,7 +376,8 @@ out_sysfs:
 	get_device(&vol->dev);
 	volume_sysfs_close(vol);
 out_gluebi:
-	ubi_destroy_gluebi(vol);
+	if(ubi_destroy_gluebi(vol))
+		ubi_err("cannot destroy device");
 out_cdev:
 	cdev_del(&vol->cdev);
 out_mapping:


Cheers
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