There's one place in flattree.c where we currently ignore the return value from fwrite(). On some gcc/glibc versions, where fwrite() is declared with attribute warn_unused_result, this causes a warning.
This patch fixes the warning, by checking the fwrite() result. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: dtc/flattree.c =================================================================== --- dtc.orig/flattree.c 2008-11-07 11:40:02.000000000 +1100 +++ dtc/flattree.c 2008-11-07 11:40:30.000000000 +1100 @@ -413,10 +413,13 @@ void dt_to_blob(FILE *f, struct boot_inf if (padlen > 0) blob = data_append_zeroes(blob, padlen); - fwrite(blob.val, blob.len, 1, f); - - if (ferror(f)) - die("Error writing device tree blob: %s\n", strerror(errno)); + if (fwrite(blob.val, blob.len, 1, f) != 1) { + if (ferror(f)) + die("Error writing device tree blob: %s\n", + strerror(errno)); + else + die("Short write on device tree blob\n"); + } /* * data_merge() frees the right-hand element so only the blob -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev