Re: [PATCH] tty: tty_io: remove hung_up_tty_fops
From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Apr 28 2023 - 13:12:01 EST
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:41:02AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2023/04/29 1:27, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > I see this change has shown up in -next as commit 4c87e9e5479b ("tty:
> > tty_io: remove hung_up_tty_fops"), where it causes the following warning
> > for configurations without CONFIG_COMPAT (I used ARCH=arm defconfig):
> >
> > drivers/tty/tty_io.c:446:13: warning: 'hung_up_tty_compat_ioctl' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
> > 446 | static long hung_up_tty_compat_ioctl(struct file *file,
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > I am not sure if you just added that patch for additional test coverage
> > or for final acceptance but the following diff resolves this warning for
> > me, perhaps it can be folded in for a v2?
>
> Thank you for reporting. Yes, moving the definition will solve the warning.
IDGI... Why do you need to keep that function at all? Compare it
with hung_up_tty_ioctl() - they are token-for-token identical; the only
difference is the function name...