Re: [PATCH -tip][RFC] pnpbios: Fix warning if no hotplug

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 16:14:09 EST


On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:52:19 +0100
Erik Ekman <erik@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> pnpbios: Fix warning if no hotplug
>
> When hotplug is turned off, I get:
> drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c: In function 'pnpbios_thread_init':
> drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c:578: warning: unused variable 'task'
>
> Is this a good way to fix this? Or should I just a #ifdef
> CONFIG_HOTPLUG around the task variable?
>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Ekman <erik@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
> index 996f648..e706d22 100644
> --- a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c
> @@ -575,8 +575,6 @@ fs_initcall(pnpbios_init);
>
> static int __init pnpbios_thread_init(void)
> {
> - struct task_struct *task;
> -
> #if defined(CONFIG_PPC)
> if (check_legacy_ioport(PNPBIOS_BASE))
> return 0;
> @@ -584,10 +582,13 @@ static int __init pnpbios_thread_init(void)
> if (pnpbios_disabled)
> return 0;
> #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
> - init_completion(&unload_sem);
> - task = kthread_run(pnp_dock_thread, NULL, "kpnpbiosd");
> - if (!IS_ERR(task))
> - unloading = 0;
> + {
> + struct task_struct *task;
> + init_completion(&unload_sem);
> + task = kthread_run(pnp_dock_thread, NULL, "kpnpbiosd");
> + if (!IS_ERR(task))
> + unloading = 0;
> + }
> #endif
> return 0;
> }

Well you could just remove `task' altogether and do

if (!IS_ERR(kthread_run(pnp_dock_thread, NULL, "kpnpbiosd")))
unloading = 0;

but

a) `unloading' doesn't actually do anything, and can be removed

b) this function shouldn't return 0 if kthread_run() failed
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