linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: remove unused variable in mtdswap

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:02:08 -0700
From:   Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...ev4u.fr>,
        Mario Rugiero <mrugiero@...il.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: remove unused variable in mtdswap

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:41:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The only user of this variable was removed, leading to a
> new harmless warning:
> 
> drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c: In function 'mtdswap_add_debugfs':
> drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c:1317:17: error: unused variable 'dev' [-Werror=unused-variable]
> 
> This removes the variable as well.
> 
> Fixes: e8e3edb95ce6 ("mtd: create per-device and module-scope debugfs entries")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

I beat you to it:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/793136/
[PATCH] mtd: mtdswap: remove unused variables 'dev' and 'gd'