Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the rtc tree

Uwe Kleine-König
2023-10-16T07:12:03Z

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Hello,

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 03:15:22PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> After merging the rtc tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allyesconfig) failed like this:
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-at91rm9200.c:561:13: error: 'at91_rtc_remove' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
> 561 | static void at91_rtc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> Caused by commit
>
> 48bc8830fbed ("rtc: at91rm9200: Convert to platform remove callback returning void")

Ah, yes, sorry I missed that. That's what my coccinelle patch does (for
reasons unknown to me). For some other patches I noticed that, but this
one slipped through.

> This function lost its __exit attribute (which includes a "used"
> attribute) and exit_p(x) is NULL when not being built with
> CONFIG_MODULE set. This build has CONFIG_RTC_DRV_AT91RM9200=y

The better fix is to add the __exit again and I see that's what
Alexandre did in his rtc-next already.

Thanks for cleaning up after me,
Uwe

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