Re: [PATCH] remove unused blkdev_dax_capable() function
From: Toshi Kani
Date: Wed May 18 2016 - 10:10:31 EST
On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 09:54 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The change from blkdev_dax_capable() to bdev_dax_capable() removed the
> only user of the former, so we now get a build warning:
>
> fs/block_dev.c:1244:13: error: 'blkdev_dax_capable' defined but not used
> [-Werror=unused-function]
> Âstatic bool blkdev_dax_capable(struct block_device *bdev)
>
> This removes the now-unused function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: a8078b1fc616 ("block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for
> consistency")
Â:
> It's not entirely from the patch description what the intention was here
> in keeping two slightly different implementations of the same function
> in one file, my best guess is that it was not intentional and we should
> just remove this.
Thanks for the build fix. ÂLooks like there was a conflict
betweenÂ8044aae6f374 andÂa8078b1fc616d, which resulted this build error.
Both patches moved blkdev_dax_capable() fromÂblock/ioctl.c
toÂfs/block_dev.c.
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
Thanks,
-Toshi