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Message-ID: <CAEjAshpWkNhVhBRZmxxbwwGrQj2txELAiOHB1Y8zoX1Qfkdb7g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:34:15 +0900
From: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Chad Williamson <chad@...c.us>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: silicom: hide conditionally used function in condition
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 02:58:50PM +0900, SeongJae Park wrote:
>> bp_proc_create() be called only when BP_PROC_SUPPORT defined but its
>> definition live outside of #ifdef BP_PROC_SUPPORT and cause following
>> trivial build warning:
>> drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c:6786:12: warning:
>> ‘bp_proc_create’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>> static int bp_proc_create(void)
>> ^
>>
>> Fix the warning by hide the definition inside #ifdef BP_PROC_SUPPORT.
>
> But no one can define that value, so why add more usages, it should just
> be ripped out. Just remove everything "hidden" by this option as no
> one is obviously using it, and no driver should be messing around in
> /proc anyway.
Good point. I also thought in that way but hesitated big change.
Maybe I should be more brave and patient.
I will make and send patch with your opinion again in couple of hours.
Thanks.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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