Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the random tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon Mar 16 2020 - 01:59:38 EST


Hi all,

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:46:18 -0400 "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:17:47PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 03:53:48PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:44:52 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > After merging the random tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > > > allnoconfig) produced this warning:
> > > >
> > > > drivers/char/random.c:820:13: warning: 'crng_initialize_secondary' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
> > > > 820 | static void crng_initialize_secondary(struct crng_state *crng)
> > > > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > >
> > > > Introduced by commit
> > > >
> > > > 5cbe0f13b51a ("random: split primary/secondary crng init paths")
> > >
> > > I am still getting this warning.
> >
> > Sorry, this is my bad.
> >
> > We only call crng_initialize_secondary() in do_numa_crng_init(), which
> > is only built for CONFIG_NUMA. We can either drop both
> > crng_initialize_secondary() and crng_init_try_arch() under the
> > CONFIG_NUMA ifdef, or add __maybe_unused to crng_initialize_secondary().
> >
> > Ted, does the below look ok to you? Or would you prefer moving things
> > under the ifdeffery?
>
> Yes, that looks fine. Reordering the functions to move them under the
> #ifdefs will make the code less readable, and adding extra
> #ifdef/#endif would also make things less readable.
>
> Thanks for the patch, will apply.

How are we going with this?

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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