Re: [PATCH 5/6] comedi: drivers: ni_mio_common: Move 'range_ni_E_ao_ext' to where it is used

Uwe Kleine-König
2021-05-20T13:07:27Z

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Hello Lee,

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 01:25:37PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> ... and mark it as __maybe_unused since not all users of the
> header file reference it.
>
> Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):
>
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c:163:35: warning: ‘range_ni_E_ao_ext’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
>
> Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
> Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> Cc: "David A. Schleef" <ds@schleef.org>
> Cc: Mori Hess <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: Truxton Fulton <trux@truxton.com>
> Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
> Cc: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 9 ---------
> drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_stc.h | 9 ++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c b/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
> index 4f80a4991f953..37615b4e2c10d 100644
> --- a/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
> @@ -160,15 +160,6 @@ static const struct comedi_lrange range_ni_M_ai_628x = {
> }
> };
>
> -static const struct comedi_lrange range_ni_E_ao_ext = {
> - 4, {
> - BIP_RANGE(10),
> - UNI_RANGE(10),
> - RANGE_ext(-1, 1),
> - RANGE_ext(0, 1)
> - }
> -};
> -
> static const struct comedi_lrange *const ni_range_lkup[] = {
> [ai_gain_16] = &range_ni_E_ai,
> [ai_gain_8] = &range_ni_E_ai_limited,
> diff --git a/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_stc.h b/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_stc.h
> index fbc0b753a0f59..0822e65f709dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_stc.h
> +++ b/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_stc.h
> @@ -1137,6 +1137,13 @@ struct ni_private {
> u8 rgout0_usage;
> };
>
> -static const struct comedi_lrange range_ni_E_ao_ext;
> +static const struct comedi_lrange __maybe_unused range_ni_E_ao_ext = {
> + 4, {
> + BIP_RANGE(10),
> + UNI_RANGE(10),
> + RANGE_ext(-1, 1),
> + RANGE_ext(0, 1)
> + }
> +};

When you send this patch some time ago I wrote:

| I think a downside of this solution is that range_ni_E_ao_ext might be
| duplicated in the object files. (Ditto for the status quo BTW.)
|
| I think the right approach to fix the compiler warning and the
| duplication is to declare range_ni_E_ao_ext external in the header and
| keep the definition in ni_mio_common.c.

You didn't reply to that, so maybe you missed it?

Best regards
Uwe

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