[PATCH]: HVCS char driver janitoring: fix compile warnings

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Fri Nov 17 09:35:36 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 14:39 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:03:07AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:26 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is a non-urgent patch. 
> > > 
> > > I can't figure out who the upstream maintainer for char drivers 
> > > is supposed to be. Can this patch be applied? 
> > > 
> > > --linas
> > > 
> > > This patch removes an pair of irritating compiler warnings:
> > > 
> > > drivers/char/hvcs.c:1605: warning: ignoring return value of
> > > sysfs_create_group declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > > drivers/char/hvcs.c:1639: warning: ignoring return value of
> > > driver_create_file declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > > 
> > > Doing this required moving a big block of code from the bottom 
> > > of the file to the top, so as to avoid the need for (irritating) 
> > > forward declarations.
> > 
> > Can you do the move and the fix as two patches? It's very hard to review
> > in its current form.
> 
> Sorry, coming shortly. -- linas

Thanks, new patches look good.

cheers

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