Re: unneeded internal declaration

[Nick Desaulniers]

Good find, will send a patch with your suggestion.  The documentation
for x86_match_cpu() says:

 25  * Arrays used to match for this should also be declared using
 26  * MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(x86cpu, ...)

Will save another patch for a friend, then.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?