Re: warning: ‘x86_get_event_constraints’ defined but not used

From: Kevin Winchester
Date: Tue Aug 23 2011 - 09:32:18 EST


On 23 August 2011 10:23, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 20:40 -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote:
>> Is there are reason why those C
>> files are included directly in another C file rather than being linked
>> together?
>
> Sheer suckyness on my part.. we needed a 'quick' fix to make these
> CPU_SUP_* things build at all and never got around to cleaning it up
> afterwards.
>
>> Or is there some other way the code could be improved and
>> also remove the warning at the same time?
>
> creation of a arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h and enough code massage
> to make all these .c files compile independently would be appreciated,
> not sure that'll immediately solve your issue though.
>
>> I do not mind doing some coding here to make this happen.  I am very
>> close to a warning-free build, so I would definitely like to take care
>> of this one.
>
> You could slip something like it into the 'cleanup' if nothing else
> presents itself :-)
>

Sure, I'll give the above suggestion a try and see if I can ensure
that the function is not compiled unless it is needed.

Kevin
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