Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Mark the variable earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable maybe_unused

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 20:54:15 EST


Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Mark the variable earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable maybe_unused

You're fixing an error on powerpc, but the patch is to the serial code,
so the subject should probably be more like:

serial: core: Mark the variable earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable maybe_unused

cheers

> 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: âearlycon_acpi_spcr_enableâ 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 <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/serial_core.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> index b32df49a3bd5..1d356105f25a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
> +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> @@ -379,7 +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
> -static const bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable;
> +static const bool earlycon_acpi_spcr_enable EARLYCON_USED_OR_UNUSED;
> static inline int setup_earlycon(char *buf) { return 0; }
> #endif
>
> --
> 2.11.0