Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1: drivers/ide/pci/jmicron.c warning

[Andrew Morton]

Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'd say that gcc warning in the case that all the enum values are enumerated
> and have returns is a broken warning irrespective of that so I won't "fix" it
> because it isn't broken. Its just like various other bogus gcc warnings
> 

But we work around gcc problems all the time.

Warnings like this have a cost - they make the build noisy and that causes
people to miss real bugs which the compiler is trying to tell them about.

So if we can implement a low-cost fix for this then we should do so.


--- a/drivers/ide/pci/jmicron.c~a
+++ a/drivers/ide/pci/jmicron.c
@@ -94,8 +94,9 @@ static int __devinit ata66_jmicron(ide_h
 			return 0;
 		return 1;
 	case PORT_SATA:
-		return 1;
+		break;
 	}
+	return 1; /* Avoid bogus "control reaches end of non-void function" */
 }
 
 static void jmicron_tuneproc (ide_drive_t *drive, byte mode_wanted)
_

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