On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Re-use the object-like macro EARLYCON_USED_OR_UNUSED to mark
>> `earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable` as maybe_unused.
>>
>> Fix the following warning (treated as error in W=1)
>>
>> CC arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.o
>> In file included from ./include/linux/serial_8250.h:14:0,
>> from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c:33:
>> ./include/linux/serial_core.h:382:19: error: ‘earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable’
>> defined but not used [-Werror=unused-const-variable=]
>> static const bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable;
>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org>
>> ---
>> include/linux/serial_core.h | 1 +
>
> I can't take this one as that's not a file I maintain.
>
> The script says:
>
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl include/linux/serial_core.h
> gre...@linuxfoundation.org
> jsl...@suse.com
> linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
>
>
> Can you resend it to them?
Ah right, thanks.
>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
>> index b32df49a3bd5..4d14ecd7dbe8 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
>> @@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ extern int of_setup_earlycon(const struct earlycon_id
>> *match,
>> extern bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable __initdata;
>> int setup_earlycon(char *buf);
>> #else
>> +EARLYCON_USED_OR_UNUSED
>> static const bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable;
>
> The macro eventually turns into an __attribute__, which I think is
> typically placed after the variable, so eg:
>
> static const bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable EARLYCON_USED_OR_UNUSED;
>
Indeed makes it more consistent with style. Thanks!
> cheers
>
>> static inline int setup_earlycon(char *buf) { return 0; }
>> #endif
>> --
>> 2.11.0
