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Message-ID: <Y6XDAiMAMLniR9PG@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:02:26 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
LLVM Mailing List <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] driver core: Silence 'unused-but-set variable' warning
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 09:51:37PM +0700, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
>
> Compiling with clang-16:
>
> drivers/base/module.c:36:6: error: variable 'no_warn' set but not \
> used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> int no_warn;
> ^
> 1 error generated.
>
> A reason the @no_warn variable exists is:
> sysfs_create_link() return value needs not be ignored to silence
> another warning.
>
> So don't remove @no_warn, but add a '(void)no_warn;'.
>
> Cc: LLVM Mailing List <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@...weeb.org>
> ---
> drivers/base/module.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/module.c b/drivers/base/module.c
> index 46ad4d636731..42f0b3b9e7f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/module.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/module.c
> @@ -59,22 +59,23 @@ void module_add_driver(struct module *mod, struct device_driver *drv)
> return;
>
> /* Don't check return codes; these calls are idempotent */
> no_warn = sysfs_create_link(&drv->p->kobj, &mk->kobj, "module");
> driver_name = make_driver_name(drv);
> if (driver_name) {
> module_create_drivers_dir(mk);
> no_warn = sysfs_create_link(mk->drivers_dir, &drv->p->kobj,
> driver_name);
> kfree(driver_name);
> }
> + (void)no_warn;
Ick, no, that's horrid and is NOT ok for kernel code, sorry.
Please fix the compiler, this is not a "fix" in any sense of the word
and is not going to work at all for kernel code.
sorry,
greg k-h
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