Re: [patch] pci: type may be unused in pci_access_init()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:34:52 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> The automatic 'type' variable is unused in !CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT and
> !CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/i386/pci/init.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/i386/pci/init.c b/arch/i386/pci/init.c
> --- a/arch/i386/pci/init.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/pci/init.c
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

Please use `diff -p'.

>     in the right sequence from here. */
>  static __init int pci_access_init(void)
>  {
> -	int type = 0;
> +	int type __attribute__((unused)) = 0;

We have __attribute_used__ for this, but the implementation looks whacky:
it's there for gcc-3 but not for gcc-4 and the intel compiler.

But it looks like the gcc-3 version is there to iron over a gcc
implementation glitch.

>  #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT
>  	type = pci_direct_probe();

Of course, one could do 

	int type = pci_direct_probe();

here instead, but that's a bit fragile.