[PATCH] Fixed statement without effect by using a correct empty instruction

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Feb 25 00:40:37 EST 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de> wrote:
> This fixes this build failure:
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-default-2.6.33/linux-2.6.32/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c: In function 'mpc52xx_gpt_probe':
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-default-2.6.33/linux-2.6.32/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c:761:3: error: statement with no effect
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de>

Hi Marcus, thanks for the patch.  One comment below...

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c
> index 6f8ebe1..88231d8 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c
> @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ static int __devinit mpc52xx_gpt_wdt_init(void)
>        return 0;
>  }
>
> -#define mpc52xx_gpt_wdt_setup(x, y)            (0)
> +#define mpc52xx_gpt_wdt_setup(x, y)            do { } while (0)

As Andrew likes to say, we should be programming in C instead of preprocessor.

-#define mpc52xx_gpt_wdt_setup(x, y)            (0)
+static inline void mpc52xx_gpt_wdt_setup(struct mpc52xx_gpt_priv
*gpt, const u32 *period) { }


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