Re: [PATCH] memstick: r592: ignore kfifo_out() return code again

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 7:17 PM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built
Linux <clang-built-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 6:52 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The value was never checked here, and the purpose of the function
> > is only to flush the contents, so restore the old behavior but
> > add a cast to void and a comment, which hopefully warns with neither
> > gcc nor clang now.
> >
> > If anyone has an idea for how to fix it without ignoring the return
> > code, that is probably better.
>
> Should r592_flush_fifo_write be made to return an int, then callers of
> r592_flush_fifo_write percolate up their return code?
> r592_transfer_fifo_pio() seems to only return 0, but its callers are
> doing return code checking.

I looked into that but couldn't come up with anything useful to do with
the return code in the callers. kfifo_out() itself doesn't seem to
ever return an error but only the length.

        Arnd