Re: [PATCH] interconnect: Fix a GCC compiler warning

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 05:19:18PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> On 2018/9/17 16:59, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 04:53:31PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> >> +to Greg and Andrew.
> >>
> >> On 2018/9/16 22:31, zhong jiang wrote:
> >>> Fix the following compile warning:
> >>>
> >>> drivers/interconnect/core.c:26:23: warning: 'icc_debugfs_dir' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
> >>>  static struct dentry *icc_debugfs_dir;
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  drivers/interconnect/core.c | 3 +++
> > This file is not in a released tree, where are you seeing it?
> I see it in linux-next.

Then please contact the owner of the branch where it came from.  They
are the only ones that can handle such a patch, not anyone else.

> >>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/interconnect/core.c b/drivers/interconnect/core.c
> >>> index 2740f1a..9ea9959 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/interconnect/core.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/interconnect/core.c
> >>> @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
> >>>  static DEFINE_IDR(icc_idr);
> >>>  static LIST_HEAD(icc_provider_list);
> >>>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(icc_lock);
> >>> +
> >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
> >>>  static struct dentry *icc_debugfs_dir;
> >>> +#endif
> > Why not move the variable to where it is used?  It should be able to go
> > under an existing #ifdef section, right?
> Because the variable need to be used in __init and __exit.  So it should be identified as
> a gloabl variable.  I fix it under the #ifdef condition.

If the variable is being used this way, then the code is written
incorrectly, such an #ifdef should not be needed for any debugfs
calls/variables.

thanks,

greg k-h