Re: [PATCH 15/52] m68k: emu: Mark version[] __maybe_unused

Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-09-11T22:26:40Z

Hi Arnd,

On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 4:07 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 9, 2023, at 14:12, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 10:28 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 7, 2023, at 15:41, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> > When building with W=1:
> >> >
> >> > m68k/arch/m68k/emu/nfeth.c:42:19: warning: ‘version’ defined but
> >> > not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
> >> > 42 | static const char version[] =
> >> > | ^~~~~~~
> >> >
> >> > Fix this while obeying the wishes of the original copyright holders by
> >> > marking version[] with __maybe_unused.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> >>
> >> That will just drop it from the object file, maybe it should
> >> instead be marked "__used" ?
> >
> > Given it's been like this since the beginning, I guess it never showed
> > up in the object file anyway...
>
> Older compilers used to keep unused variables, and all versions
> still do when building with -O0 instead of the usual -O2.
>
> I can see on godbolt.org that gcc-1.27 did not have that optimization
> yet, while gcc-4.1 had it, but I haven't found any versions between
> those. I vaguely remember us throwing out the version strings from
> most kernel files a long time ago, possibly that was triggered by
> gcc no longer putting them into the object any more, but I can't
> find a reference for that.
>
> What I can see is that a lot of old network drivers have version
> strings like this one, but they are actually printed from the
> probe function, and lost their __devinitdata annotation in the past.

The version string in arch/m68k/emu/nfeth.c used to be __devinitdata,
too, but it was never printed. So I'm just gonna silence the warning,
as this patch does.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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