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Message-Id: <200804221950.54827.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:50:54 +0200
From:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: #define out unused parameters of	xfs_bmap_add_free and xfs_btree_read_bufl

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:26, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> I want to eventually reach the state with no warnings
> >> about unused parameters.
> > 
> > The standard kernel pattern in using empty static inline functions (that 
> > allow type checking).
> > 
> > And I'm not sure whether the number of functions you'd have to change 
> > for reaching your goal has four, five or six digits.
> 
> It would be a huge undertaking.
> 
> Just building xfs w/ the warning in place exposes tons of unused
> parameter warnings from outside xfs as well.

Eh... I meant "no warnings about unused parameters" for fs/xfs/* only,
not for the entire kernel. I filter out other warnings.

I want to do it not as an excercise in perfectionism,
but as means of making sure we do not waste stack
passing useless parameters, which is important for xfs.
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