With the needlessly global marker_debug being static gcc can optimize the unused code away. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/marker.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/marker.c~make-marker_debug-static kernel/marker.c --- a/kernel/marker.c~make-marker_debug-static +++ a/kernel/marker.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ extern struct marker __start___markers[] extern struct marker __stop___markers[]; /* Set to 1 to enable marker debug output */ -const int marker_debug; +static const int marker_debug; /* * markers_mutex nests inside module_mutex. Markers mutex protects the builtin _ -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/