Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Desaulniers <> | Date | Fri, 1 Mar 2019 10:28:35 -0800 | Subject | Re: Clang warning in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ethtool.c |
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:34 AM Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:09:21PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After commit 8c5ad0dae93c ("igc: Add ethtool support"), Clang warns: > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ethtool.c:9:19: warning: variable 'igc_priv_flags_strings' is not needed and will not be emitted [-Wunneeded-internal-declaration] > > static const char igc_priv_flags_strings[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = { > > ^ > > 1 warning generated. > > > > igc_priv_flags_strings is only used in an ARRAY_SIZE macro, which is a > > compile time evaluation, so no reference to it is being emitted in the > > final assembly. Is it actually needed and was forgotten to be used > > somewhere or could it be eliminated so that Clang no longer warns? > > That's because the driver provides get_priv_flags() and set_priv_flags() > callbacks in its ethtool_ops to allow querying and setting legacy-rx > private flag but it does not provide get_sset_count() and get_strings() > to provide list of private flags to userspace ethtool.
So the variable declaration should get a `__unused` annotation then (and maybe a comment)?
-- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
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