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

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Date:	Fri, 09 May 2008 09:06:37 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	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 Thu, 2008-05-08 at 15:03 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Why?  You point out it found some real bugs, should we just assume
> that
> no new bugs of this same problem will happen again in the future?

Making sure it warns/printk's on error would probably find the same
bugs...

Ben.


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