linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] tpm/tpm_crb: mark PM functions as __maybe

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Message-ID: <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B543B0650@hasmsx108.ger.corp.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:35:57 +0000
From:   "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
CC:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
        "Marcel Selhorst" <tpmdd@...horst.net>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@...hat.com>,
        "tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
        <tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] tpm/tpm_crb: mark PM functions as __maybe_unused


> 
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:01:36PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> 
> > I believe that in this case the #ifdefs can be done correctly quite
> > easily, but now I'm not against your solution as well, just maybe put
> > some of this info to the commit message.
> 
> I perfer fewer ifdefs, it makes it more maintainable..

Sure,
> 
> The compiler will remove unused static functions.

I'm not sure if this goes away w/o --gc-sections, but it might. 
Will check, didn't looked at that for a while. 

Thanks
Tomas 

Tomas