Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx5: work around unused function warning

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Apr 27 2017 - 08:04:35 EST


On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 01:04:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The previous patch addressed a sparse warning but replaced it with a
>> compiler warning when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled:
>>
>> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/ipoib.c:485:13: error: 'mlx5_rdma_netdev_free' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
>> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/ipoib.c:423:27: error: 'mlx5_rdma_netdev_alloc' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
>>
>> We should never export 'static' functions, so this makes them global
>> again but hides them in another #ifdef like the change before.
>>
>> Fixes: a7082ef066f0 ("mlx5: hide unused functions")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Arnd,
>
> Thanks for the patch, but Stephen and Saeed already sent patch similar to it.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=149288674816288&w=2

That link is for the patch that introduced the warning that I'm fixing here,
it showed up yesterday in linux-next.

Did you misread my patch, or just give the wrong link?

Arnd