Re: [PATCH] mlx5: avoid unused variable warning
From: David Miller
Date: Fri May 20 2016 - 14:24:26 EST
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 16:21:07 +0200
> When CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is disabled, we get a new warning in the mlx5
> ethernet driver because the tc_for_each_action() loop never references
> the iterator:
>
> mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c: In function 'mlx5e_stats_flower':
> mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c:431:20: error: unused variable 'a' [-Werror=unused-variable]
> struct tc_action *a;
>
> This changes the dummy tc_for_each_action() macro by adding a
> cast to void, letting the compiler know that the variable is
> intentionally declared but not used here. I could not come up
> with a nicer workaround, but this seems to do the trick.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: aad7e08d39bd ("net/mlx5e: Hardware offloaded flower filter statistics support")
> Fixes: 00175aec941e ("net/sched: Macro instead of CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT ifdef")
Applied, thanks Arnd.