Re: [PATCH] kernel/params.c: make use of unused but set variable

[Tejun Heo]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 05:17:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> At most, it could be a "WARN_ON_ONCE()". Maybe even just silently
> ignore the error. But BUG_ON()? Hell no.

Yeah, WARN_ON_ONCE() is the right one.  The short history here is that
sysfs_create_file() has __must_check on it which triggered this whole
discussion.  The rationale for having __must_check on the function was
that the function's failure leads to userland visible behavior
difference and it's very inviting to skip error handling on the
function as file creation is often the last operation to be performed
with no further dependency on it.

Thanks.

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tejun
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