linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/21] powerpc: Mark the variable earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable maybe

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Date:   Sat, 10 Mar 2018 19:08:37 +0100
From:   Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/21] powerpc: Mark the variable earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable
 maybe_unused

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org> writes:
>
>> Re-use the object-like macro EARLYCON_USED_OR_UNUSED to mark
>> `earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable` as maybe_unused.
>>
>> Fix the following warning (treated as error in W=1)
>>
>>   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.o
>> In file included from ./include/linux/serial_8250.h:14:0,
>>                  from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c:33:
>> ./include/linux/serial_core.h:382:19: error: ‘earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]
>>  static const bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable;
>>                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/serial_core.h | 1 +
>
> I can't take this one as that's not a file I maintain.
>
> The script says:
>
>   $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl include/linux/serial_core.h
>   gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
>   jslaby@...e.com
>   linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>
>
> Can you resend it to them?

Ah right, thanks.
>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
>> index b32df49a3bd5..4d14ecd7dbe8 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
>> @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ extern int of_setup_earlycon(const struct earlycon_id *match,
>>  extern bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable __initdata;
>>  int setup_earlycon(char *buf);
>>  #else
>> +EARLYCON_USED_OR_UNUSED
>>  static const bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable;
>
> The macro eventually turns into an __attribute__, which I think is
> typically placed after the variable, so eg:
>
>   static const bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable EARLYCON_USED_OR_UNUSED;
>

Indeed makes it more consistent with style.  Thanks!

> cheers
>
>>  static inline int setup_earlycon(char *buf) { return 0; }
>>  #endif
>> --
>> 2.11.0