Re: unneeded internal declaration

[Josh Triplett]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 08:07:41PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> today I noticed I was getting the warning:
> 
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:64:32: warning: variable 'vmx_cpu_id' is not needed
> and will not be emitted [-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]
> 
> seems like this was added in commit: e9bda3b3d0ce7 "KVM: VMX:
> Auto-load on CPUs with VMX"
> 
> seems like other call sites of the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE typically get
> added to an id_table of various driver structs.  Should that be the
> case here, or would a `__unused` modifier be a way forward (if so,
> please confirm, would be a good first bug for a friend)?

Many of those users seem to have an x86_match_cpu call in their init
function. vmx has its own checks; perhaps it'd make sense to use that
instead, which would also eliminate the warning?