[PATCH] [JFFS2] jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread() return value cleanup
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Wed Jun 24 23:00:29 EDT 2009
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:09:01 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:11 +0300, Gerard Lledo wrote:
> > There is no user of this return value in the kernel. Change it to return void
> > instead.
>
> NAK. I hate this type of patch.
>
> A function _should_ return an error value indicating success or failure,
> if there's _any_ chance that it (or a future rewrite of it) may fail.
>
> It's up to the _callers_ to act on that result, or not, as they see fit.
True.
> Andrew, may I suggest that you look for such justification in future
> patches of this type?
eh, I sometimes don't even look at them. I just save them up in case of
maintainer fumblage.
I might retain this one as a "jffs2 fails to check
jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread() return value" bug report :)
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