Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268019AbUJNXd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:33:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267916AbUJNXa2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:30:28 -0400 Received: from pollux.ds.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.208.7]:58891 "EHLO pollux.ds.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267783AbUJNX2Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:28:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:28:22 +0100 (BST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Russell King Cc: David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: __attribute__((unused)) In-Reply-To: <20041014230802.C28649@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20041014220243.B28649@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1097791496.5788.2034.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <20041014230802.C28649@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 601 Lines: 15 On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Russell King wrote: > It's the "later compilers" which I'm worried about here - I think they > defined "unused" to mean "this really really isn't used and you can > discard it". Hence my concern with the above. Your concern is valid. Much enough it's been already fixed in 2.4.27, so I suppose 2.6 deserves the fix, too. Maciej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/