On 19/03/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> -             device_create_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev,&dev_attr_cmos);
> +             err = device_create_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev, 
&dev_attr_cmos);
> +             if (err)
> +                     printk(KERN_WARNING "Unable to create sysfs attribute "
> +                             "file for floppy device: %s\n",
> +                             floppy_device[drive].name);

That change looks pretty useless. Either the error should be handled correctly
by bailing out or the warn_unused_results should be dropped.

At least letting the user know that something failed is better than
the current situation of just failing silently I'd say.

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