Re: [PATCH] nvdimm: fix compilation warnings with W=1

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu May 16 2019 - 14:29:50 EST


On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 9:05 AM Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Several places (dimm_devs.c, core.c etc) include label.h but only
> label.c uses NSINDEX_SIGNATURE, so move its definition to label.c
> instead.
>
> In file included from drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c:23:
> drivers/nvdimm/label.h:41:19: warning: 'NSINDEX_SIGNATURE' defined but
> not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
>
> Also, some places abuse "/**" which is only reserved for the kernel-doc.
>
> drivers/nvdimm/bus.c:648: warning: cannot understand function prototype:
> 'struct attribute_group nd_device_attribute_group = '
> drivers/nvdimm/bus.c:677: warning: cannot understand function prototype:
> 'struct attribute_group nd_numa_attribute_group = '
>
> Those are just some member assignments for the "struct attribute_group"
> instances and it can't be expressed in the kernel-doc.

Ah, good point, I missed that.

> Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>

Looks good, I'll pull this in for a post -rc1 update.