linux-kernel - Re: clean some unneeded #ifdef MODULE

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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 18:15:24 +0300
From:   James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@...ux.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, viresh.kumar@...aro.org, jdelvare@...e.com,
        linux@...ck-us.net, khalid@...ehiking.org,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, aacraid@...rosemi.com,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clean some unneeded #ifdef MODULE

On Fri, 2019-05-31 at 17:09 +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> here're some patches that clean up uncessary cases of #ifdef MODULE.
> These ifdef's just exlude MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE's when the kernel is
> built w/o module support. As MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro already
> checks for that, these extra #ifdef's shouldn't be necessary.

Isn't the problem the #ifdefs are trying to solve a complaint about an
unused variable in the non-module case? if so, is that fixed some other
way?

James