> > TBH, I'm not sure this is 'the right patch' (hence the RFC...): in > > fact, I'm currently missing the motivations for allowing assignments > > such as the "r0 = ..." assignment above in generic code. (BTW, it's > > not currently possible to use such assignments in litmus tests...) > > Given that a quick (and perhaps error-prone) search of the uses of > rcu_assign_pointer() in v5.1 didn't find a single use of the return > value, let's please instead change the documentation and implementation > to eliminate the return value.
Thanks for the confirmation, Paul; I'll prepare the new patch shortly... Andrea