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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostap: hide unused procfs helpers
To:     Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>, j@w1.fi, kvalo@codeaurora.org
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:43:05 -0700
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On 07/13/2018 12:26 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> + Randy
> 
> On 7/13/2018 9:03 AM, YueHaibing wrote:
>> When CONFIG_PROC_FS isn't set, gcc warning this:
>>
>> drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_hw.c:2901:12: warning: ‘prism2_registers_proc_show’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>>   static int prism2_registers_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>>
>> drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_proc.c:16:12: warning: ‘prism2_debug_proc_show’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>>   static int prism2_debug_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>>              ^
>> drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_proc.c:49:12: warning: ‘prism2_stats_proc_show’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>>   static int prism2_stats_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>>              ^
>> drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_proc.c:177:12: warning: ‘prism2_crypt_proc_show’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>>   static int prism2_crypt_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>>              ^
>>
>> fix this by adding #ifdef around them.
>> hfa384x_read_reg is only used by prism2_registers_proc_show,so move it
>> into #ifdef.
> 
> There was already a fix for this posted by Randy Dunlap taking a different approach, ie. use __maybe_unused classifier. To be honest I prefer the ifdef approach as it is more explicit and does not feel like a cheat.

Hi,
You are welcome to merge (or ack or have someone else merge) either of them.
I'm not counting patches, just trying to help out (in this case by reducing noise).


> Actually some of the functions are between a flag already PRISM2_NO_PROCFS_DEBUG which is in a private header file hostap_config.h. Seems like this would be better placed in Kconfig and depend on CONFIG_PROCFS. Anyway, this driver is old cruft. Maybe some people are still running it, but it is probably not worth the effort so fine with either fix.
> 
> Regards,
> Arend


-- 
~Randy