netdev - Re: [PATCH] smc91x: fix unused flags warnings on UP systems

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Message-Id: <20091211.151502.188418417.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:15:02 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vapier@...too.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nico@...xnic.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smc91x: fix unused flags warnings on UP systems

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Date: Wed,  9 Dec 2009 08:40:04 -0500

> Local flags variables will be declared whenever these functions get used,
> but obviously on UP systems the flags parameter won't be touched.  So add
> some dummy ops that get optimized away anyways to satisfy gcc's warnings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>

Applied, although I thought we had a standard macro to handle this
kind of case.

In any case, for future reference, the usual way to handle this is
usually "(void) var;"
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