Re: [PATCH] of: drop symbols declared by _OF_DECLARE() from modules

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jan 14 2016 - 05:15:48 EST


On Thursday 14 January 2016 13:33:06 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> +#if defined(CONFIG_OF) && !defined(MODULE)
> #define _OF_DECLARE(table, name, compat, fn, fn_type) \
> static const struct of_device_id __of_table_##name \
> __used __section(__##table##_of_table) \
> --
>

Doesn't this lead to "unused function" warnings? Maybe we can change the "__used"
into "__unused" when MODULE is set, so the compiler will automatically
drop all code that is only referenced from the entry.

Arnd