vmw_vmci_defs.h is included by multiple source files. Some of which do not make use of 'struct vmci_handle VMCI_ANON_SRC_HANDLE' rendering it unused. Ensure the compiler knows that this is in fact intentional by marking it as __maybe_unused. This fixes the following W=1 warnings:
In file included from drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c:8: include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h:162:33: warning: ‘VMCI_ANON_SRC_HANDLE’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] 162 | static const struct vmci_handle VMCI_ANON_SRC_HANDLE = { | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c:8: include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h:162:33: warning: ‘VMCI_ANON_SRC_HANDLE’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] 162 | static const struct vmci_handle VMCI_ANON_SRC_HANDLE = { | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cc: George Zhang <georgezh...@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> --- include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h b/include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h index fefb5292403bc..be0afe6f379ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h +++ b/include/linux/vmw_vmci_defs.h @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ static inline bool vmci_handle_is_invalid(struct vmci_handle h) */ #define VMCI_ANON_SRC_CONTEXT_ID VMCI_INVALID_ID #define VMCI_ANON_SRC_RESOURCE_ID VMCI_INVALID_ID -static const struct vmci_handle VMCI_ANON_SRC_HANDLE = { +static const struct vmci_handle __maybe_unused VMCI_ANON_SRC_HANDLE = { .context = VMCI_ANON_SRC_CONTEXT_ID, .resource = VMCI_ANON_SRC_RESOURCE_ID }; -- 2.25.1