Re: [PATCH]: HVCS char driver janitoring: fix compile warnings

[linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:03:07AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:26 -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > 
> > This is a non-urgent patch. 
> > 
> > I can't figure out who the upstream maintainer for char drivers 
> > is supposed to be. Can this patch be applied? 
> > 
> > --linas
> > 
> > This patch removes an pair of irritating compiler warnings:
> > 
> > drivers/char/hvcs.c:1605: warning: ignoring return value of
> > sysfs_create_group declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > drivers/char/hvcs.c:1639: warning: ignoring return value of
> > driver_create_file declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > 
> > Doing this required moving a big block of code from the bottom 
> > of the file to the top, so as to avoid the need for (irritating) 
> > forward declarations.
> 
> Can you do the move and the fix as two patches? It's very hard to review
> in its current form.

Sorry, coming shortly. -- linas

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