Re: [PATCH 3.10 275/319] ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Feb 05 2017 - 14:49:43 EST


On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 20:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 7f032d6ef6154868a2a5d5f6b2c3f8587292196c upstream.
>
> The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
> will eventually be converted to void.

Is this necessary? It doesn't seem so.

This one seems an unlikely candidate to backport as
it effectively doesn't do anything but prepare for
seq_printf return value removal.

Is that removal going to be backported too or is this
being patched to avoid some other backported patch's
desire to be applied without offsets?