linux-kernel - unneeded internal declaration

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Message-ID: <CAH7mPvis=5FvWXYFhasR+Rqw+hezZnN6ME_PHTa1utQ7iT0aOA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:07:41 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
To:     josh@...htriplett.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Cc:     kay@...y.org, avi@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: unneeded internal declaration

today I noticed I was getting the warning:

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:64:32: warning: variable 'vmx_cpu_id' is not needed
and will not be emitted [-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]

seems like this was added in commit: e9bda3b3d0ce7 "KVM: VMX:
Auto-load on CPUs with VMX"

seems like other call sites of the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE typically get
added to an id_table of various driver structs.  Should that be the
case here, or would a `__unused` modifier be a way forward (if so,
please confirm, would be a good first bug for a friend)?