Re: [PATCH] igc: remove unused igc_priv_flags_strings array

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 12:29:33 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:29:57 +0100

> clang points out that the igc_priv_flags_strings[] array is never
> referenced, aside from being used for calculating its length:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_ethtool.c:9:19: error: variable 'igc_priv_flags_strings' is not needed and will not
> be emitted [-Werror,-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]
> static const char igc_priv_flags_strings[][ETH_GSTRING_LEN] = {
>
> A similar array is present in several other intel ethernet drivers,
> but all the others use it in their .get_strings() callback, which
> igc does not implement (yet).
>
> Probably it should be implemented, but as I have no way of testing
> it, this does the simpler alternative of removing the array to
> get rid of the warning.
>
> Fixes: 8c5ad0dae93c ("igc: Add ethtool support")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Jeff, I assume you will pick this up.