Re: [PATCH] mbox: qcom: avoid unused-variable warning
From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri Sep 20 2019 - 12:45:48 EST
Quoting Arnd Bergmann (2019-09-20 07:55:29)
> Without CONFIG_OF, there is no reference to the apcs_clk_match_table[]
> array, causing a harmless warning:
>
> drivers/mailbox/qcom-apcs-ipc-mailbox.c:57:28: error: unused variable 'apcs_clk_match_table' [-Werror,-Wunused-variable]
> const struct of_device_id apcs_clk_match_table[] = {
>
> Move the variable out of the variable scope and mark it 'static'
> to avoid the warning (static const variables get silently dropped
> by the compiler), and avoid the on-stack copy at the same time.
>
> Fixes: 78c86458a440 ("mbox: qcom: add APCS child device for QCS404")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mailbox/qcom-apcs-ipc-mailbox.c | 11 ++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/qcom-apcs-ipc-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/qcom-apcs-ipc-mailbox.c
> index eeebafd546e5..10557a950c2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/qcom-apcs-ipc-mailbox.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/qcom-apcs-ipc-mailbox.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ static const struct mbox_chan_ops qcom_apcs_ipc_ops = {
> .send_data = qcom_apcs_ipc_send_data,
> };
>
> +static const struct of_device_id apcs_clk_match_table[] = {
> + { .compatible = "qcom,msm8916-apcs-kpss-global", },
> + { .compatible = "qcom,qcs404-apcs-apps-global", },
> + {}
> +};
> +
> static int qcom_apcs_ipc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct qcom_apcs_ipc *apcs;
> @@ -54,11 +60,6 @@ static int qcom_apcs_ipc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> void __iomem *base;
> unsigned long i;
> int ret;
> - const struct of_device_id apcs_clk_match_table[] = {
Does marking it static here work too? It would be nice to limit the
scope of this variable to this function instead of making it a global.
Also, it might be slightly smaller code size if that works.
> - { .compatible = "qcom,msm8916-apcs-kpss-global", },
> - { .compatible = "qcom,qcs404-apcs-apps-global", },
> - {}
> - };
>
> apcs = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*apcs), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!apcs)