linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/27] ipmi: Remove use of seq

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Message-ID: <1424740992.5342.1.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:23:12 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
	openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/27] ipmi: Remove use of seq_printf return value

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 15:50 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:53:34 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> 
> > The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
> > will eventually be converted to void.
> > 
> > See: commit 1f33c41c03da ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
> >      seq_has_overflowed() and make public")
> 
> 4.0-rc1 appears to have an earlier and different version of this.
> 
> commit d6c5dc18d863338528f4e89e8dba9449c6e30f4e
> Author:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue Feb 17 11:10:56 2015 -0800
> Commit:     Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
> CommitDate: Thu Feb 19 20:58:41 2015 -0600
> 
>     ipmi: Remove uses of return value of seq_printf

Yeah, I sent Corey a relative patch too.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/22/133


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