Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Updated: Reworked Cell OProfile: SPU mutex lock fix

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat May 10 2008 - 15:09:08 EST


> > + /* Ignoring the return value from the unregister
> > + * call. A failed return value simply says there
> > + * was no registered event. Hence there will not
> > + * be any calls to process a switch event that
> > + * could cause a problem.
> > + */
> > + spu_switch_event_unregister(&spu_active);
>
> Better to use this here, to show the return value is ignored:
>
> (void)spu_switch_event_unregister(...)

Actually Linux style is to not add those casts. But I don't think we
all the notifier_chain_unregister funtion should return error at all,
we should probably fix that up in the core code.
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