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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Illustration of warning explosion silliness
Andrew Morton wrote:
>> You're ignoring the API issue at hand. Let me say it again for the
>> cheap seats: "search" You search a list, and stick a pointer somewhere
>> when found. No hardware touched. No allocations. Real world. There
>> is an example of usage in the kernel today.
>
> If it's called in that fashion then the caller should still check the
> device_for_each_child() return value to find out if it actually got a
> match.


Or in the case of scsi_sysfs.c, it simply <does something>.

Oh well, whatever. This thing introduces endless build noise we won't
kill for years, making it much harder to spot much more serious stuff.

Jeff


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