From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752506AbaCGTKn (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:10:43 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:60608 "EHLO mail-pb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751464AbaCGTKm (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:10:42 -0500 From: behanw@converseincode.com To: khali@linux-fr.org, rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, pageexec@freemail.hu, Mark Charlebois , Behan Webster Subject: [PATCH] module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:08:47 -0800 Message-Id: <1394219327-5591-1-git-send-email-behanw@converseincode.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mark Charlebois This code makes a compile time type check that is optimized away. Clang complains that it generates an unused function. I believe GCC won't complain for a static inline fuction but would if it was just a static function. Adding the unused attribute to the function declaration removes the warning. This code works for both gcc and clang. Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois Signed-off-by: Behan Webster --- include/linux/moduleparam.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h index c3eb102..5ce1f67 100644 --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h @@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ static inline void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, /* The macros to do compile-time type checking stolen from Jakub Jelinek, who IIRC came up with this idea for the 2.4 module init code. */ #define __param_check(name, p, type) \ + static inline type *__check_##name(void) __attribute__ ((unused)); \ static inline type *__check_##name(void) { return(p); } extern struct kernel_param_ops param_ops_byte; -- 1.8.3.2