Re: [PATCH 24/27] tracing: Remove use of seq_printf return value

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 12:20 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:39:38 -0800
> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > FWIW, this one should be Cc:stable - it's a plain and simple bugfix
> > > (so are all of those that used to return the result of seq_printf() from
> > > ->show()).
> > 
> > Nah, it's not really a bugfix here.
> > 
> > Patches sent to stable should fix actual bugs or failures.
> > 
> > Sure, it's a defect, but it's only a logical one, not an
> > actual one.  It doesn't/can't fail in practice.
> > 
> > This is only a single symbol and so it can't overflow the
> > initial allocation.
> > 
> > Besides that, the return value of the containing function
> > is ignored.
> > 
> 
> Right, there's nothing that will actually break with the current code.
> The return value is ignored in the one place it is used. And no new
> code is going to expect a result.
> 
> It's a fix that's fine for the next merge window. It's not even
> important enough to get into this window.

All of these "int->void seq_<foo>" changes are for 4.1
or whatever the next version is going to be called.

And I think date based kernel versioning like <yyyy.mm.v>
would have been better.


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