Tejun Heo <hte...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 05:16:53AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Tejun Heo <hte...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 11:03:16AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> >> Please describe the circumstances under which this function can fail.
>> >
>> > Allocation failure obviously
>>
>> Won't happen here, this is a boot-time function. version_sysfs_builtin.
>> The __init is the clue.
>
> Yes, that's this one callsite. There are whole others which can fail.
> Just add WARN_ON here. What are you arguing?
What will a second warning which is never triggered achieve? A bit of
code bloat and confusion, when I really do want to ignore the value.
I've asked (again) for gcc to allow cast to void:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66425
Thanks,
Rusty.
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