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authorHimanshu Chauhan <hschauhan@nulltrace.org>2010-01-27 16:53:20 -0800
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2010-02-02 14:33:56 +0100
commit71d41aed9468a1239cff1b2d928954885b09de6c (patch)
tree58fbf55e18b20a75f26ecad29b5a71d71cbbf00a /scripts/kallsyms.c
parentd4987bd7ae8401bd88896a6f76dc7af31fe55732 (diff)
downloadlinux-71d41aed9468a1239cff1b2d928954885b09de6c.tar.gz
scripts/kallsyms: suppress build warning
Suppress a warn_unused_result warning.

fgets is called as a part of error handling.  It is called just to drop a
line and return immediately.  read_map is reading the file in a loop and
read_symbol reads line by line.  So I think there is no point in using
return value for useful checking.  Other checks like 3 items were returned
or !EOF have already been done.

Signed-off-by: Himanshu Chauhan <hschauhan@nulltrace.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/kallsyms.c')
-rw-r--r--scripts/kallsyms.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 86c3896a1e01..e3902fb39afd 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -108,8 +108,10 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s)
 	rc = fscanf(in, "%llx %c %499s\n", &s->addr, &stype, str);
 	if (rc != 3) {
 		if (rc != EOF) {
-			/* skip line */
-			fgets(str, 500, in);
+			/* skip line. sym is used as dummy to
+			 * shut of "warn_unused_result" warning.
+			 */
+			sym = fgets(str, 500, in);
 		}
 		return -1;
 	}