Re: [PATCH] iio: health/afe4403: mark suspend/resume functions __maybe_unused

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Wed Feb 17 2016 - 14:36:04 EST


On 15/02/16 09:20, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 15 February 2016 11:18:20 Daniel Baluta wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The newly added afe4403 driver implements suspend/resume using the
>>> SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() macro, which leaves out references to the actual
>>> functions when CONFIG_PM is disabled, causing a harmless warning:
>>>
>>> health/afe4403.c:509:12: error: 'afe4403_suspend' defined but not used
>>> health/afe4403.c:530:12: error: 'afe4403_resume' defined but not used
>>>
>>> This marks the functions as __maybe_unused so we don't get those
>>> warnings.
>>>
>> Or we could put _suspend and _resume under CONFIG_PM_SLEEP.
>
> That never works reliably. I still have a backlog of ~50 patches
> of drivers that got this wrong in the past.
>
>> We have:
>>
>> :~/w/iio/drivers/iio$ ack-grep SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS | wc -l
>> 31
>>
>> and only 2 drivers using __maybe_unused.
>>
>> :~/w/iio/drivers/iio$ ack-grep maybe_unused
>> gyro/itg3200_core.c
>> 354:static int __maybe_unused itg3200_suspend(struct device *dev)
>> 365:static int __maybe_unused itg3200_resume(struct device *dev)
>>
>> adc/imx7d_adc.c
>> 553:static int __maybe_unused imx7d_adc_suspend(struct device *dev)
>> 566:static int __maybe_unused imx7d_adc_resume(struct device *dev)
>>
>> For consistency, we should use CONFIG_PM_SLEEP and get rid of __maybe_unused.
>
> I hope to eventually kill off all the CONFIG_PM_SLEEP checks and then
> make it work automatically by redefining SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS so it
> leaves an unused reference to the functions.
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git

Thanks,

Jonathan
>
> Arnd
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