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Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:00:56 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] block: mtip32xx: mtip32xx: Mark debugging variable
 'start' as __maybe_unused
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2021, Bart Van Assche wrote:

> On 3/12/21 2:55 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):
> > 
> >  drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c: In function ‘mtip_standby_immediate’:
> >  drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:1216:16: warning: variable ‘start’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> 
> Has it been verified that the compiler is wrong, or in other words that
> this patch does not suppress a useful warning?

Neither is true.

'start' is used, but only when debug is enabled.

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