Re: [PATCH] xfs: #define out unused parameters of xfs_bmap_add_free and xfs_btree_read_bufl

From: Denys Vlasenko
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 13:51:59 EST


On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:26, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> I want to eventually reach the state with no warnings
> >> about unused parameters.
> >
> > The standard kernel pattern in using empty static inline functions (that
> > allow type checking).
> >
> > And I'm not sure whether the number of functions you'd have to change
> > for reaching your goal has four, five or six digits.
>
> It would be a huge undertaking.
>
> Just building xfs w/ the warning in place exposes tons of unused
> parameter warnings from outside xfs as well.

Eh... I meant "no warnings about unused parameters" for fs/xfs/* only,
not for the entire kernel. I filter out other warnings.

I want to do it not as an excercise in perfectionism,
but as means of making sure we do not waste stack
passing useless parameters, which is important for xfs.
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