From: "Neftin, Sasha" <sasha.neftin@intel.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, arnd@arndb.de
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, ndesaulniers@google.com,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igc: remove unused igc_priv_flags_strings array
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 09:37:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbc02b0b-8f85-cdc9-2e8d-9a29adefbf6b@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190307.092929.277930617530301779.davem@davemloft.net>
On 3/7/2019 09:29, David Miller wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:29:57 +0100
>
>> clang points out that the igc_priv_flags_strings[] array is never
>> referenced, aside from being used for calculating its length:
>>
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ethtool.c:9:19: error: variable 'igc_priv_flags_strings' is not needed and will not
>> be emitted [-Werror,-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]
>> static const char igc_priv_flags_strings[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
>>
>> A similar array is present in several other intel ethernet drivers,
>> but all the others use it in their .get_strings() callback, which
>> igc does not implement (yet).
>>
>> Probably it should be implemented, but as I have no way of testing
>> it, this does the simpler alternative of removing the array to
>> get rid of the warning.
>>
>> Fixes: 8c5ad0dae93c ("igc: Add ethtool support")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> Jeff, I assume you will pick this up.
>
I've submitted igc: Add support for statistics commit
7aa2547613233a232b9b2e1942d67da4997e6ad0. This patch in Jeff's Kirsher
next-queue and used igc_priv_flags_strings.
Thanks,
Sasha
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2019-03-07 9:29 Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-07 17:29 ` David Miller
2019-03-07 17:37 ` Neftin, Sasha [this message]
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