Re: [PATCH -next] rapidio: fix -Wunused-const-variable= warning

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:17:14 +0800 Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@huawei.com> wrote:

> When building with W=1, the following warning occurs.
> 
> drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c: In function ‘rio_txcq_handler’:
> drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c:673:7: warning: variable ‘rc’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>    int rc;
> 
> Since the variable "rc" is not used in function 'rio_txcq_handler',
> so we removed it to remove the warning.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c
> +++ b/drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c
> @@ -670,13 +670,12 @@ static void rio_txcq_handler(struct cm_dev *cm, int slot)
>  	 */
>  	if (!list_empty(&cm->tx_reqs) && (cm->tx_cnt < RIOCM_TX_RING_SIZE)) {
>  		struct tx_req *req, *_req;
> -		int rc;
>  
>  		list_for_each_entry_safe(req, _req, &cm->tx_reqs, node) {
>  			list_del(&req->node);
>  			cm->tx_buf[cm->tx_slot] = req->buffer;
> -			rc = rio_add_outb_message(cm->mport, req->rdev, cmbox,
> -						  req->buffer, req->len);
> +			rio_add_outb_message(cm->mport, req->rdev, cmbox,
> +					     req->buffer, req->len);
>  			kfree(req->buffer);
>  			kfree(req);

rio_add_outb_message() can fail.  It would be better to appropriately
handle these failures, rather than simply ignoring them.