linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] video: backlight: adp8870: Fix warn_unused_result warning reported by Stephen Rothwell

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <544AC56F16B56944AEC3BD4E3D5917713094627148@LIMKCMBX1.ad.analog.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:57:40 +0000
From:	"Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"device-drivers-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org" 
	<device-drivers-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org>,
	Drivers <Drivers@...log.com>,
	"rpurdie@...ux.intel.com" <rpurdie@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	"sfr@...b.auug.org.au" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] video: backlight: adp8870: Fix warn_unused_result
 warning reported by Stephen Rothwell

Andrew Morton wrote on 2010-10-29:
>
> I have some bones to gnaw.  Not specific to this patch ;)
>
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:54:26 +0200
> <michael.hennerich@...log.com> wrote:
>
>> Subject: [PATCH] video: backlight: adp8870: Fix warn_unused_result
>> warning reported by Stephen Rothwell
>
> Lots of people are doing this "video: backlight: adp8870:" thing
> lately.  And it's good, but why not just use
> "drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c" to identify the affected
> susbsytem/file/etc?  It's simple and uniform.  It's not always the
> appropriate thing to do, but replacing the /'s with ": " seems rather
> random and pointless.

Think it's easier to read, or better skip reading further.

> Secondly, no, the point of this patch is not to fix a
> warn_unused_result() warning!  The patch actually fixes a bug: the
> code wasn't checking the strict_strtoul() return value.  The warning
> is simply what alerted us to the bug.
>
> So I renamed this patch to
>
>       drivers/video/backlight/adp8860_bl.c: check strict_strtoul() return
> value

Agreed - Thanks for fixing it.

Greetings,
Michael

Analog Devices GmbH      Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Str. 6      80807 Muenchen
Sitz der Gesellschaft Muenchen, Registergericht Muenchen HRB 4036 Geschaeftsfuehrer Thomas Wessel, William A. Martin, Margaret Seif


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/