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From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: avoid sparse warning in HID_COMPAT_LOAD_DRIVER
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:41:13 +0000
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 05:01:38PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Ben Dooks wrote:
> 
> > >  #ifdef CONFIG_HID_COMPAT
> > >  #define HID_COMPAT_LOAD_DRIVER(name)	\
> > > +/* prototype to avoid sparse warning */	\
> > > +extern void hid_compat_##name(void);	\
> > >  void hid_compat_##name(void) { }	\
> > surely this could simply be changed to 'static void 
> > hid_compat_##name(void)' if it is only being defined to be an empty 
> 
> This will cause gcc emit warnings about unused symbols.

sorry, 'static inline void' then.
 
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> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
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