Re: [PATCH] mm/memory.c: remove warning from an uninitialized spinlock. was: Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2

Dave Jones
2007-04-29T21:36:13Z

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:24:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:50:49 +0200 Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> > Introduce a macro for suppressing gcc from generating a warning about a probable
> > unitialized state of a variable.
>
> I ended up doing the below.
>
> It's better to make this a per-compiler-version thing: later versions of
> gcc might need different tricks, or might provide __attribute__((stfu)) or
> whatever.

__attribute__((unused)) ?

Dave

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