Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933135Ab0FRTzn (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:55:43 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:44559 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754278Ab0FRTzl (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:55:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Bsq4G1TKA27j/UcpKBy5kdoHkVj9m10ujw+ZkJ7sSoGwjw1IQATA0g3TaINDldR0lI Rj9tluHaUohfx32EXWPSqkJ28/sfnM+sH80HQKrxPSkgTRdzZKSbiyzYmVb8NhJA8f2x jVh49S3Pe1GrkBF1AApi1uF7BZeojcteiKzBQ= Message-ID: <4C1BCF3B.3010006@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:55:39 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091114 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5]scsi:hosts.c Fix warning: variable 'rval' set but not used References: <1276666434-11227-1-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <1276666434-11227-6-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <1276702443.2847.153.camel@mulgrave.site> <4C18F524.4000902@gmail.com> <1276709590.2847.176.camel@mulgrave.site> <4C1A4A69.7060801@gmail.com> <1276889827.2850.331.camel@mulgrave.site> In-Reply-To: <1276889827.2850.331.camel@mulgrave.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1869 Lines: 53 On 06/18/2010 12:37 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 09:16 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >>> Erm, well, as I said, error code and the fact that the thread failed to >>> start, so more >>> >>> printk(KERN_WARNING "scsi%d: error handler thread failed to spawn, error >>> = %d\n", host->host_no, PTR_ERR(shost->ehandler)); >>> >>> James >>> >> >> o.k. I looked at this a bit more and finally got the thing to build >> through without a warning, using what you had sent, but keep in mind I >> still need to add error = %d\n", host->host_no, to the printk >> >> here's what I have so far: >> >> >> drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 3 ++- >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c >> index 6660fa9..c1ff708 100644 >> --- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c >> +++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c >> @@ -419,8 +419,9 @@ struct Scsi_Host *scsi_host_alloc(struct >> scsi_host_template *sht, int privsize) >> >> shost->ehandler = kthread_run(scsi_error_handler, shost, >> "scsi_eh_%d", shost->host_no); >> + rval = PTR_ERR(shost->ehandler); >> if (IS_ERR(shost->ehandler)) { >> - rval = PTR_ERR(shost->ehandler); >> + printk(KERN_WARNING "scsi%d: error handler thread failed to spawn\n", >> rval); > > So this isn't really an improvement over the suggestion. What you > wanted was shost->host_no, as you deduced, but the %d becomes %ld to > quiet the type warning. > > James ahh.. was reading the manual but couldn't make sense of the % then letter to use. let me add these in, then if good I'll send it out for review etc.. Justin P. Mattock -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/