Re: [PATCH] vhost: silence an unused-variable warning

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sat Mar 09 2019 - 18:19:13 EST


On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 03:17:26PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 12:05:49 +0100
>
> > On some architectures, the MMU can be disabled, leading to access_ok()
> > becoming an empty macro that does not evaluate its size argument,
> > which in turn produces an unused-variable warning:
> >
> > drivers/vhost/vhost.c:1191:9: error: unused variable 's' [-Werror,-Wunused-variable]
> > size_t s = vhost_has_feature(vq, VIRTIO_RING_F_EVENT_IDX) ? 2 : 0;
> >
> > Mark the variable as __maybe_unused to shut up that warning.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> I'll apply this, thanks Arnd.

I queued this for next linux already and it's been in linux-next
for a while. Sorry that I didn't reply, will try to remember to do it
next time.