linux-kernel - Re: [patch] compiler, clang: suppress warning for unused static inline functions

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Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 14:32:05 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Cc:     David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] compiler, clang: suppress warning for unused static
 inline functions

On Wed, 24 May 2017 14:22:29 -0700 Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org> wrote:

> I'm not a kernel maintainer, so it's not my decision whether this
> warning should be silenced, my personal opinion is that it's benfits
> outweigh the inconveniences of dealing with half-false positives,
> generally caused by the heavy use of #ifdef by the kernel itself.

Please resend and include this info in the changelog.  Describe
instances where this warning has resulted in actual runtime or
developer-visible benefits.

Where possible an appropriate I suggest it is better to move the
offending function into a header file, rather than adding ifdefs.