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Message-ID: <20240702112454.408757f7@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 11:24:54 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Adrián Moreno
 <amorenoz@...hat.com>, Aaron Conole <aconole@...hat.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, echaudro@...hat.com, dev@...nvswitch.org, Donald
 Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Pravin
 B Shelar <pshelar@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 05/10] net: openvswitch: add psample action

On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 20:16:51 +0200 Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 7/2/24 20:06, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 11:53:01 +0200 Ilya Maximets wrote:  
> >> Or create a simple static function and mark all the arguments as unused,
> >> which kind of compliant to the coding style, but the least pretty.  
> > 
> > To be clear - kernel explicitly disables warnings about unused
> > arguments. Unused arguments are not a concern.  
> 
> OK.  Good to know.
> 
> Though I think, the '12) Macros, Enums and RTL' section of the
> coding style document needs some rephrasing in that case.

Do you mean something like:

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index 7e768c65aa92..0516b7009688 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ Generally, inline functions are preferable to macros resembling functions.
 		} while (0)

 Function-like macros with unused parameters should be replaced by static
-inline functions to avoid the issue of unused variables:
+inline functions to avoid the issue of unused variables in the caller:

 .. code-block:: c

?