Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the tty tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Jan 09 2011 - 19:55:08 EST


On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:49:59AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg, Kay,
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:42:04 -0800 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 06:11:58PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > After merging the tty tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > > ppc64_defconfig) produced these warnings:
> > >
> > > drivers/tty/tty_io.c: In function 'tty_init':
> > > drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3309: warning: ignoring return value of 'device_create_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > > drivers/tty/vt/vt.c: In function 'vty_init':
> > > drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2997: warning: ignoring return value of 'device_create_file', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > >
> > > Introduced by commit fbc92a3455577ab17615cbcb91826399061bd789 ("tty: add
> > > 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device").
> >
> > Oops, Kay, care to make up a patch to fix these warnings?
>
> These warnings are now in Linus' tree ...

Yes, Kay just sent me a patch to fix this, which I will queue up after
.38-rc1 is out.

thanks,

greg k-h
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