Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:23:29 +0200
From: Karsten Keil <keil@b1-systems.de>
To: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>, isdn@linux-pingi.de,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c compiler warning seems
	like a BUG
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:09:57PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> I am getting this compiler warning in linus tree :
> 
>   CC [M]  drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.o
> drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c: In function ‘hfcpci_softirq’:
> drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c:2333: warning: ignoring return value of ‘driver_for_each_device’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> 
> static void
> hfcpci_softirq(void *arg)
> {
>         (void) driver_for_each_device(&hfc_driver.driver, NULL, arg,
>                                         _hfcpci_softirq);
> 
>         /* if next event would be in the past ... */
>         if ((s32)(hfc_jiffies + tics - jiffies) <= 0)
>                 hfc_jiffies = jiffies + 1;
>         else
>                 hfc_jiffies += tics;
>         hfc_tl.expires = hfc_jiffies;
>         add_timer(&hfc_tl);
> }
> 
> It seems to me it should return is driver_for_each_device fails :
>         if (driver_for_each_device(&hfc_driver.driver, NULL, arg,
>                                    _hfcpci_softirq))
> 		return;

Without looking deeper into it (I'm on a trip with limited net access), this sounds 
resonable for me, I will have a closer look next week.

> 
> or if possible can we return this error code for hfcpci_softirq()
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> JSR
> 
> 
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