Re: [PATCH 1/7] printk: clean up return value

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:57 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 08:36 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> >>> We could fix this up, but it seems pointless.  Callers don't really care
> >>> about the extra characters added by printk().  Instead, let's return the
> >>> length of the original message as formatted (and possibly truncated)
> >>> by vscnprintf().
> >> Or we could just change it to 'void'. As Joe Perches says, nobody really 
> >> cares deeply enough for this to generally even matter.
> > Here are changes to make printk/vprintk return void
> > to the only uses I found:
> >  arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/pci.c   |    2 +-
> >  arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/setup.c |    2 +-
> >  drivers/char/mem.c            |    6 ++----
> >  drivers/md/md.c               |    3 +--
> >  drivers/md/raid5.c            |    3 ++-
> >  drivers/net/e100.c            |    9 +++++----
> >  include/linux/kernel.h        |   16 ++++++++--------
> >  include/net/sctp/sctp.h       |    6 +++---
> >  kernel/lockdep.c              |    4 ++--
> >  kernel/printk.c               |   10 +++-------
> >  net/sunrpc/svc.c              |    9 +++------
> >  11 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> Ok, you beat me to it.
> My second patch will depend on this.  Two questions -
> - May I add it to my series with your Signed-off-by?

Hi Alan.

Sure.  I suggest you verify it first though.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

> May I split it up, so I can CC individual maintainers with the
> relevant portions?

Please.  Thanks.  Joe