linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: mark lock functions as __maybe

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Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:24:07 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: mark lock functions as __maybe_unused

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 12:12:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> The best way to avoid these would be to add the code that will
> use these functions. If that still takes a while, this patch
> at least shuts up the compiler by marking the functions
> as __maybe_unused. The same could be achieved by marking them
> as static inline or non-static, or by hiding them from the
> compiler, but those seemed less appropriate.

That code is still in review, it's not looking too hard to get merged.

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