Re: [PATCH] dma: ste_dma40: fix unneeded variable warning

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 10:39 AM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:13:30AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > clang-9 points out that there are two variables that depending on the
> > configuration may only be used in an ARRAY_SIZE() expression but not
> > referenced:
> >
> > drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c:145:12: error: variable 'd40_backup_regs' is not needed and will not be emitted [-Werror,-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]
> > static u32 d40_backup_regs[] = {
> >            ^
> > drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c:214:12: error: variable 'd40_backup_regs_chan' is not needed and will not be emitted [-Werror,-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]
> > static u32 d40_backup_regs_chan[] = {
> >
> > Mark these __maybe_unused to shut up the warning.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the patch!

>
> Might be worth mentioning that this warning will only appear when
> CONFIG_PM is unset (they are both used in d40_save_restore_registers).

So would moving the definition into a
#ifdef CONFIG_PM
#endif
block be better than __maybe_unused?

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers