Re: [PATCH] string.h: Mark 34 functions with __must_check

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On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 9:27 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 09:13:17 -0700
> Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:09 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm curious. How many warnings showed up when you applied this patch?
> >
> > I got zero for x86_64 and arm64 defconfig builds of linux-next with
> > this applied.  Hopefully that's not an argument against the more
> > liberal application of it?  I view __must_check as a good thing, and
> > encourage its application, unless someone can show that a certain
> > function would be useful to call without it.
>
> Not at all, I was just curious, because I would have expected patches
> to fix possible bugs with it.

Ah, granted, I was surprised, too.  Maybe would be helpful to mention
that in the commit message.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers



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