Re: [patch] pci: type may be unused in pci_access_init()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 22:23:45 EST


On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:34:52 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The automatic 'type' variable is unused in !CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT and
> !CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG.
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/i386/pci/init.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/i386/pci/init.c b/arch/i386/pci/init.c
> --- a/arch/i386/pci/init.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/pci/init.c
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

Please use `diff -p'.

> in the right sequence from here. */
> static __init int pci_access_init(void)
> {
> - int type = 0;
> + int type __attribute__((unused)) = 0;

We have __attribute_used__ for this, but the implementation looks whacky:
it's there for gcc-3 but not for gcc-4 and the intel compiler.

But it looks like the gcc-3 version is there to iron over a gcc
implementation glitch.

> #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT
> type = pci_direct_probe();

Of course, one could do

int type = pci_direct_probe();

here instead, but that's a bit fragile.
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