netdev - Re: [PATCH] igc: remove unused igc_priv_flags

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Date:   Thu, 7 Mar 2019 09:37:13 -0800
From:   "Neftin, Sasha" <sasha.neftin@...el.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, arnd@...db.de
Cc:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, ndesaulniers@...gle.com,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igc: remove unused igc_priv_flags_strings array

On 3/7/2019 09:29, David Miller wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Date: Thu,  7 Mar 2019 10:29:57 +0100
> 
>> clang points out that the igc_priv_flags_strings[] array is never
>> referenced, aside from being used for calculating its length:
>>
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ethtool.c:9:19: error: variable 'igc_priv_flags_strings' is not needed and will not
>>        be emitted [-Werror,-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]
>> static const char igc_priv_flags_strings[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
>>
>> A similar array is present in several other intel ethernet drivers,
>> but all the others use it in their .get_strings() callback, which
>> igc does not implement (yet).
>>
>> Probably it should be implemented, but as I have no way of testing
>> it, this does the simpler alternative of removing the array to
>> get rid of the warning.
>>
>> Fixes: 8c5ad0dae93c ("igc: Add ethtool support")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Jeff, I assume you will pick this up.
> 
I've submitted igc: Add support for statistics commit 
7aa2547613233a232b9b2e1942d67da4997e6ad0. This patch in Jeff's Kirsher 
next-queue and used igc_priv_flags_strings.
Thanks,
Sasha