From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:43:18 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~1078^2~9
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cebc04ba9aeb3a646cc746300421fc0e5aa4f253;p=linux-2.6

add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK

Those 1500 warnings can be a bit of a pain.  Add a config option to shut them
up.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 9b4f110949..060b96112e 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(void __iomem *);
 #define __must_check
 #endif
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
+#undef __must_check
+#define __must_check
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Allow us to avoid 'defined but not used' warnings on functions and data,
  * as well as force them to be emitted to the assembly file.
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 554ee688a9..5c114c3f03 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ config PRINTK_TIME
 	  operations.  This is useful for identifying long delays
 	  in kernel startup.
 
+config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
+	bool "Enable __must_check logic"
+	default y
+	help
+	  Enable the __must_check logic in the kernel build.  Disable this to
+	  suppress the "warning: ignoring return value of 'foo', declared with
+	  attribute warn_unused_result" messages.
 
 config MAGIC_SYSRQ
 	bool "Magic SysRq key"