Re: [PATCH] Fix bytecount result from printk()

[David S. Miller]

From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:57:32 -0500

> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:49AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
>  > printk() returns a bytecount, which nothing actually appears to use.
> 
> We do check it in a few places.
> 
> arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:                             i += printk(" "); \
> arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:                     i += printk(" <%s> ", id);
> arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:                     i += printk(" <EOE> ");
> arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:                             i += printk(" <IRQ> ");
> arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:                             i += printk(" <EOI> ");
> drivers/char/mem.c:             ret = printk("%s", tmp);

Wow, that's amazing. :)

I bet these can easily be removed, and since printk() is such
a core thing, simplifying it should trump whatever benfits
these few call sites have from getting a return byte count.
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