Re: [PATCH] sound: Fix warnings relating to ignored return value in snd_card_register

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 11:14:54 EST


At Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:59:03 +0100,
Hannes Eder wrote:
>
> Do not ignore the return of 'device_create_file' in
> 'snd_card_register' and thereby fixing the following warnings:
>
> sound/core/init.c: In function 'snd_card_register':
> sound/core/init.c:640: warning: ignoring return value of
> 'device_create_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> sound/core/init.c:641: warning: ignoring return value of
> 'device_create_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result

The changes look good, but please run checkpatch.pl to your patch and
fix the coding style issues suggested there.


thanks,

Takashi

>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> sound/core/init.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/core/init.c b/sound/core/init.c
> index af1e407..814d834 100644
> --- a/sound/core/init.c
> +++ b/sound/core/init.c
> @@ -637,8 +637,10 @@ int snd_card_register(struct snd_card *card)
> #endif
> #ifndef CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
> if (card->card_dev) {
> - device_create_file(card->card_dev, &card_id_attrs);
> - device_create_file(card->card_dev, &card_number_attrs);
> + if ((err = device_create_file(card->card_dev, &card_id_attrs)) < 0)
> + return err;
> + if ((err = device_create_file(card->card_dev, &card_number_attrs)) < 0)
> + return err;
> }
> #endif
> return 0;
>
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