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Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:44:50 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs, sysfs: Change sysfs_pathname function prototype.

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 05:48:36PM +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
> Make sysfs_pathname inline, we we're hit by the following warning:
> 
> 
> fs/sysfs/dir.c:410: warning: ‘sysfs_pathname’ defined but not used
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@...il>
> ---
> 
> --- linus-36/fs/sysfs/dir.c	2010-10-21 02:30:22.000000000 +0600
> +++ rakib-36/fs/sysfs/dir.c	2010-10-31 17:34:46.000000000 +0600
> @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ int __sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_c
>   *
>   *	XXX: does no error checking on @path size
>   */
> -static char *sysfs_pathname(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, char *path)
> +static inline char *sysfs_pathname(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, char *path)

If it's really not used then why would marking it inline help out any?
Shouldn't we just delete the function instead?

thanks,

greg k-h
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