Re: drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c compiler warning seemslike a BUG

From: Karsten Keil
Date: Wed Jul 15 2009 - 18:23:40 EST


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 âhfcpci_softirqâ:
> drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c:2333: warning: ignoring return value of âdriver_for_each_deviceâ, 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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