Re: [PATCH v3] Compiler Attributes: remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Sun Nov 29 2020 - 20:05:29 EST


On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 04:33:35AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Revert commit cebc04ba9aeb ("add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK").
>
> A lot of warn_unused_result warnings existed in 2006, but until now
> they have been fixed thanks to people doing allmodconfig tests.
>
> Our goal is to always enable __must_check where appropriate, so this
> CONFIG option is no longer needed.
>
> I see a lot of defconfig (arch/*/configs/*_defconfig) files having:
>
> # CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK is not set
>
> I did not touch them for now since it would be a big churn. If arch
> maintainers want to clean them up, please go ahead.
>
> While I was here, I also moved __must_check to compiler_attributes.h
> from compiler_types.h
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>