[PATCH] rio: warn_unused_result warnings fix
Michael Ellerman
michael at ellerman.id.au
Tue Apr 28 20:51:22 EST 2009
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 18:15 +0800, Li Yang wrote:
> warning: ignoring return value of 'device_add', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> warning: ignoring return value of 'sysfs_create_bin_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli at freescale.com>
> ---
> drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c | 5 ++++-
> drivers/rapidio/rio-sysfs.c | 6 ++++--
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c b/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c
> index 74d0bfa..9309e24 100644
> --- a/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c
> +++ b/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c
> @@ -265,7 +265,10 @@ static void rio_route_set_ops(struct rio_dev *rdev)
> */
> static void __devinit rio_add_device(struct rio_dev *rdev)
> {
> - device_add(&rdev->dev);
> + int err;
> +
> + err = device_add(&rdev->dev);
> + WARN_ON(err);
>
> spin_lock(&rio_global_list_lock);
> list_add_tail(&rdev->global_list, &rio_devices);
Is that really useful? Why not return the error to rio_setup_device()
which can tell it's caller.
cheers
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