Re: [PATCH] of: of_match_node: Make stub an inline function to avoid W=1 warnings

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 04:19:39AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> When building without CONFIG_OF and W=1, errors are given about unused
> arrays of match data, because of_match_node is stubbed as a macro. The
> compile does not see it takes parameters when not astub, so it
> generates warnings about unused variables. Replace the stub with an
> inline function to avoid these false warnings.

Hi Rob

So 0-day shows some people have worked around this with #ifdef
CONFIG_OF around the match table.

I checked the object code for the file i'm interested in.  The
optimiser has correctly throw away the match table and all code around
it with the inline stub.

Which do you prefer? This patch and i remove the #ifdef, or the old
stub and if add #ifdef around the driver i'm getting warnings from?

     Andrew