linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/13] perf tools: Use __maybe

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Date:	Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:07:00 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:	Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...il.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] perf tools: Use __maybe_used for unused variables

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:04:25 +0300, Irina Tirdea wrote:
> perf defines __used to for marking unused variables.
> The variable __used is defined to __attribute__((__unused__)), which
> contradicts the kernel definition to __attribute__((__used__))
> for new gcc versions. On Android), __used is also defined in
> system headers and this leads to warnings like:
> warning: '__used__' attribute ignored
>
> This patch simply replaces all instances of __used with __maybe_unused
> so there will be no such warnings.

How about just using '__unused' for less typing?

Btw, the patch looks whitespace-damaged.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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