Re: [PATCH] seq_file: Fix seq_putc() to be consistent with seq_puts()

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 09:08 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 16:47 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 04:41:22PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > Hmm, this inconsistency seems to be in more functions. I would divide
> > > it into three categories:
> []
> > No.  _Any_ caller that decides to report that error to its caller is fucking
> > broken.  We had some cases like that.
> []
> > And let's make seq_printf and friends return void.  Any breakage we miss
> > on grep will be caught by compiler.  Enough is enough.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/11/8

Hey Al, if you really want this to happen there are
a couple hundred uses of the return value that could
be inspected/converted.

I've cc'd you a couple times now on a few patches
that start that conversion.

If you're serious about changing the return type for
the next release,  it'd be useful if you'd ack/nack
the approach.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/29/709


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