Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add check for sscanf without return use

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 16:56 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:45:23 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Naked use sscanf can be troublesome.
> 
> It would be helpful to expand on "troublesome"?

Dunno, you either know or the couple of paragraphs
it takes to explain with examples won't really be
too helpful in a commit log.

> > Add a warning when the sscanf return value is not used.
> Maybe it should be __must_check?

Maybe.

That might be easier but there'll be a couple
hundred new build warnings.

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