Re: [PATCH 04/10] xfs: don't bother returning errors from xfs_file_release

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On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 05:51:24PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 08:39:51AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * Don't bother propagating errors.  We're just doing cleanup, and the caller
> > > + * ignores the return value anyway.
> > 
> > Shouldn't we drop the int return from the function declaration, then?
> > 
> > (Is that also a cleanup that's you're working on?)
> 
> We can't drop it without changing the f_ops->release signature and
> updates to the many instance of it.  That would still be worthwhile
> project, but it's something for someone who is better at scripting
> than me.

Yeahhhhh... at this point it's a giant treewide change that just doesn't
seem worth it.  Maybe save it for someone who wants to make a subtle but
important behavior change and needs a type signature change to stand in
as an idiot light for out of tree modules. :P

Anyway I think this is fine, let's merge this series
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

--D




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