Re: [PATCH 1/2] clk: pxa mark dummy helper as 'inline'

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 2:42:59 PM CET Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 11/08, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The dummy_clk_set_parent function is marked as 'static' but is
> > no longer referenced from the pxa25x clk driver after the last use
> > of the RATE_RO_OPS() macro is gone from this file, causing a
> > harmless build warning:
> > 
> > In file included from drivers/clk/pxa/clk-pxa25x.c:24:0:
> > drivers/clk/pxa/clk-pxa.h:146:12: error: 'dummy_clk_set_parent' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
> > 
> > This marks the functon as 'inline', which lets the compiler simply
> > drop it when it gets referenced.
> > 
> > Fixes: 9fe694295098 ("clk: pxa: transfer CPU clock setting from pxa2xx-cpufreq")
> 
> I hope I don't rewrite clk-next history... I need some sort of
> magic git pre-commit hook that rewrites fixes tags if the hash
> changes.
> 

I think if you end up rebasing clk-next, the correct approach
would be to fold simple bugfixes into the patches that introduce
the problems. Obviously you still need a way to find them though.

	Arnd