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

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

It would be helpful to me, since I don't write code with sscanf every
day.  A URL to an LKML description or something would be enough if the
commit log size is the concern.

Bjorn
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