Axel Thimm wrote:
> latest hg fails on > 2.6.17 due to video_device_create_file being void
> but still being asked for a return value in bttv-driver.c
>
> linux/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c:
>
> 3963 #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,17)
> 3964 ret = video_device_create_file(btv->video_dev, class_device_attr_card);
> 3965 if (ret < 0)
>
>
> linux/include/media/v4l2-dev.h:
>
> 379 static inline void
> 380 video_device_create_file(struct video_device *vfd,
> 381 struct class_device_attribute *attr)
> 382 {
>
Hmmm... This was caused by the "Check all __must_check warnings in
bttv." patch from Randy Dunlap (cc's from original thread added)
I am aware that this was done for various reasons of sanity checking,
however, we cannot check the return value of a void ;-)