Re: [PATCH 0/8] Fix a bunch of W=1 warnings in Backlight

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> Hi Lee.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 03:57:13PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Attempting to clean-up W=1 kernel builds, which are currently
> > overwhelmingly riddled with niggly little warnings.
> > 
> > Lee Jones (8):
> >   backlight: lms501kf03: Remove unused const variables
> >   backlight: lcd: Add missing kerneldoc entry for 'struct device parent'
> 
> 
> >   backlight: ili922x: Add missing kerneldoc descriptions for
> >     CHECK_FREQ_REG() args
> >   backlight: ili922x: Remove invalid use of kerneldoc syntax
> >   backlight: ili922x: Add missing kerneldoc description for
> >     ili922x_reg_dump()'s arg
> I wonder why these warnings show up as nothing pulls in this .c file.
> Anyway I would suggest to drop using kerneldoc syntax for single drivers
> like this - and the benefit here is low.
> Now they are typed, otherwise this ahd been fine in a single patch.

What do you mean by 'nothing pulls it in'?

> >   backlight: backlight: Supply description for function args in existing
> >     Kerneldocs
> >   backlight: lm3630a_bl: Remove invalid checks for unsigned int < 0
> >   backlight: qcom-wled: Remove unused configs for LED3 and LED4
> 
> The other fixes looks good.
> They are all:
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks (although this should be Reviewed-by).

> >  drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c  | 2 ++
> >  drivers/video/backlight/ili922x.c    | 8 ++++++--
> >  drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c        | 1 +
> >  drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c | 4 ++--
> >  drivers/video/backlight/lms501kf03.c | 8 --------
> >  drivers/video/backlight/qcom-wled.c  | 8 --------
> >  6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> > 

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