Re: [PATCH] Silence 'ignoring return value' warnings indrivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 08 May 2008 17:49:44 +1000,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:34 +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > 
> > I was under the impression that failing the initialization was usually
> > the right thing to do, since we end up with an un-configurable,
> > un-usable device. But that may be coloured by my experience with s390
> > devices, where we rely on sysfs attributes extensively. If indeed most
> > sysfs files are non-vital, removing the __must_check and relying on a
> > scary warning in the core may be fine. (OTOH, adding checks to the
> > core
> > has helped us to find some lurking bugs.)
> 
> The driver can still fail initialization if it wants... I'm just
> objecting to the __must_check.

I hear you :) I found it useful, but it seems we should get rid of it
for _create_file() now.

<Adding Greg to cc: for his opinion on this>
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