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>From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@elte.hu] 
>Sent: Montag, 22. September 2008 14:08
>To: Metzger, Markus T

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>> The void-cast is intentional in both cases.
>> 
>> I thought it a question of style, i.e. that we don't want void casts 
>> just like we want NULL instead of 0.
>
>ok.
>
>But you could mark ds_release_bts() as a __must_check 
>function, in that 
>case the (void) has functional aspects as well: the kernel build will 
>complain if a return value is ignored unintentionally.

Wouldn't every non-void function be __must_check?

regards,
markus.
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