linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] char, moxa: Make isabrds variable global.

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Date:	Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:27:03 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] char, moxa: Make isabrds variable global.

On 11/07/2009 06:08 AM, Rakib Mullick wrote:
> On 11/3/09, Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@...il.com> wrote:
>>  When CONFIG_MODULE=n and CONFIG_PCI=n, then variable
>>  isabrds becomes unused variable. So place it outside
>>  moxa_init solves this problem.
>>
>>   We were warned by the following warning:
>>
>>  drivers/char/moxa.c: In function `moxa_init':
>>  drivers/char/moxa.c:1012: warning: unused variable `isabrds'
> 
> Hi Andrew, after applying this one, it introduce a new warning:

Sorry I had no time to look into the first patch. And it makes no sense.
The driver is unusable on !MODULE && !PCI. So better fix is to disallow
whole build on such configurations. Care to fix that?
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