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SubjectRe: unneeded internal declaration
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On 26/09/2017 05:07, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> today I noticed I was getting the warning:
>
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:64:32: warning: variable 'vmx_cpu_id' is not needed
> and will not be emitted [-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]
>
> seems like this was added in commit: e9bda3b3d0ce7 "KVM: VMX:
> Auto-load on CPUs with VMX"
>
> seems like other call sites of the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE typically get
> added to an id_table of various driver structs. Should that be the
> case here, or would a `__unused` modifier be a way forward (if so,
> please confirm, would be a good first bug for a friend)?

It would be __used, not __unused. But I'm not sure then why things are
working for everyone, wouldn't the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE cause a linking
error?

What compiler is emitting this warning?

Paolo

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