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

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Wed Nov 15 2006 - 19:03:36 EST


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.

cheers

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