Re: [PATCH v2] module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro

[Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>]

On 03/07/14 18:17, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 18:10 -0800, behanw@converseincode.com wrote:
>> This code makes a compile time type check that is optimized away. Clang
>> complains that it generates an unused function.
> []
>> diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
> []
>> @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static inline void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params,
>>   /* The macros to do compile-time type checking stolen from Jakub
>>      Jelinek, who IIRC came up with this idea for the 2.4 module init code. */
>>   #define __param_check(name, p, type) \
>> -	static inline type *__check_##name(void) { return(p); }
>> +	static inline __always_unused type *__check_##name(void) { return(p); }
> Perhaps __maybe_unused ?
I thought about that (and even tested with __maybe_unused), but I 
*think* they are always unused, except at compile time (see comment 
above). Though I could be wrong.

I'm certainly okay with __maybe_unused if that is preferable.

Behan

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