linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [linux-next] [staging] rtl8821ae: fixed defined-not-used warning

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:51:20 +0200
From:	Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@...e.cz>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Mark Einon <mark@...on.net>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [linux-next] [staging] rtl8821ae: fixed defined-not-used
 warning

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:39:50PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 14:15 +0200, Jan Moskyto Matejka wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/btcoexist/halbtc8192e2ant.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/btcoexist/halbtc8192e2ant.c
> > @@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ static void halbtc8192e2ant_querybt_info(struct btc_coexist *btcoexist)
> >  	btcoexist->btc_fill_h2c(btcoexist, 0x61, 1, h2c_parameter);
> >  }
> >  
> > +#if (BT_AUTO_REPORT_ONLY_8192E_2ANT != 0)
> >  static bool halbtc8192e2ant_iswifi_status_changed(struct btc_coexist *btcoexist)
> >  {
> >  	static bool pre_wifi_busy;
> > @@ -534,6 +535,7 @@ static bool halbtc8192e2ant_iswifi_status_changed(struct btc_coexist *btcoexist)
> >  
> >  	return false;
> >  }
> > +#endif
> >  
> >  static void halbtc8192e2ant_update_btlink_info(struct btc_coexist *btcoexist)
> >  {
> 
> The output of 
>     git grep BT_AUTO_REPORT_ONLY_8192E_2ANT next-20140430
> 
> is
>     next-20140430:drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/btcoexist/halbtc8192e2ant.c:#if (BT_AUTO_REPORT_ONLY_8192E_2ANT == 1)
>     next-20140430:drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/btcoexist/halbtc8192e2ant.c:#if (BT_AUTO_REPORT_ONLY_8192E_2ANT == 0)
>     next-20140430:drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/btcoexist/halbtc8192e2ant.c:#if (BT_AUTO_REPORT_ONLY_8192E_2ANT == 0)
>     next-20140430:drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/btcoexist/halbtc8192e2ant.h:#define     BT_AUTO_REPORT_ONLY_8192E_2ANT                  0
> 
> So it seems that some trivial cleaning up is possible. Ie, drop the
> #define and drop the three tests that are either always true or always
> false. Is there a reason not to do that cleaning up?

I thought this part of code is here for somebody who wants to make a
custom build with this variable changed to compile in the other
behaviour. But after a while, it stopped to make sense for me. I may
clean it up. I'll send a cleanup-patch later.
-- 
Jan Matějka <mq@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs

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