[PATCH] Mark prop unused in early_init_dt_scan_chosen().

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed May 9 10:41:02 EST 2007


On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:56:34AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 12:14 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > The prop variable is only referenced when initrd support is
> > turned on.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > index caef555..6705459 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > @@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_scan_chosen(unsigned long node,
> >  					    const char *uname, int depth, void *data)
> >  {
> >  	unsigned long *lprop;
> > -	u32 *prop;
> > +	u32 __attribute__((unused)) *prop;
> >  	unsigned long l;
> >  	char *p;
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Let's be honest, this is a hack. I think it'd be cleaner to pull the
> initrd logic out into a separate function.

More speficially, if the variable ever really becomes unused, this
will continue to suppress the warning.  I'd be happied with an #ifdef
initrd around it, ugly though that is.

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