Re: [PATCH v4 01/21] nvmem: Mark nvmem_type_str array with __maybe_unused

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Wed Nov 28 2018 - 16:05:53 EST


On 28/11/2018 21:05:17+0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Since we put static variable to a header file it's copied to each module
> that includes the header. But not all of them are actually using it.
>
> Mark nvmem_type_str array with __maybe_unused to make a compiler happy:
>
> In file included from include/linux/rtc.h:18,
> from drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c:15:
> include/linux/nvmem-provider.h:29:27: warning: ânvmem_type_strâ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
> static const char * const nvmem_type_str[] = {
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/nvmem-provider.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h b/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
> index 00ff92571683..e33919ddb026 100644
> --- a/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ enum nvmem_type {
> NVMEM_TYPE_BATTERY_BACKED,
> };
>
> -static const char * const nvmem_type_str[] = {
> +static const __maybe_unused char * const nvmem_type_str[] = {

Hum, it is probably better to move the array to nvmem/core.c. I should
have done that from the beginning.

> [NVMEM_TYPE_UNKNOWN] = "Unknown",
> [NVMEM_TYPE_EEPROM] = "EEPROM",
> [NVMEM_TYPE_OTP] = "OTP",
> --
> 2.19.2
>

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