linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: apm: mark proc_apm_show as __maybe

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Date:   Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:40:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: apm: mark proc_apm_show as __maybe_unused

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> A new build error appeared with CONFIG_PROC_FS disabled:
> 
> arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:1643:12: error: 'proc_apm_show' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
> 
> This marks the function as __maybe_unused to let the compiler drop
> it silently.
>
> Fixes: 3f3942aca6da ("proc: introduce proc_create_single{,_data}")

The proper fix for this is to convert the stub function for proc_apm_show()
to an inline. The compiler complains because the stub is a macro ....

Thanks,

	tglx