Re: [PATCH] interconnect: Fix a GCC compiler warning

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Sep 17 2018 - 05:00:00 EST


On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 04:53:31PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> +to Greg and Andrew.
>
> On 2018/9/16 22:31, zhong jiang wrote:
> > Fix the following compile warning:
> >
> > drivers/interconnect/core.c:26:23: warning: ?icc_debugfs_dir? defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
> > static struct dentry *icc_debugfs_dir;
> >
> > Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/interconnect/core.c | 3 +++

This file is not in a released tree, where are you seeing it?

> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/interconnect/core.c b/drivers/interconnect/core.c
> > index 2740f1a..9ea9959 100644
> > --- a/drivers/interconnect/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/interconnect/core.c
> > @@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
> > static DEFINE_IDR(icc_idr);
> > static LIST_HEAD(icc_provider_list);
> > static DEFINE_MUTEX(icc_lock);
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
> > static struct dentry *icc_debugfs_dir;
> > +#endif

Why not move the variable to where it is used? It should be able to go
under an existing #ifdef section, right?

thanks,

greg k-h