From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Confusion about unused variable warnings during kernel build.
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:12:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081030191157.GA5836@joi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea11fea30810282321x4e54617dq5e7d273ac5ff131f@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:51:20AM +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Occasionally during kernel builds I get some unused variable warnings.
> But when I go and check the code the variable is getting used.
> Interestingly I have seen this problem only with the file symbols
> exported from fs/locks.c. An example of such errors is
>
> fs/lockd/svclock.c:719: warning: unused variable 'file'
> fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c:154: warning: unused variable 'dentry'
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:1626: warning: unused variable 'flp'
Check the definition of functions which "use" these variables.
Marcin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-30 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-29 6:33 Confusion about unused variable warnings during kernel build Manish Katiyar
2008-10-30 18:32 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2008-10-30 19:12 ` Marcin Slusarz [this message]
2008-10-31 1:53 ` Manish Katiyar
2008-10-31 13:45 ` Nick Andrew
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