Re: [PATCH 04/30] usb: misc: sisusbvga: sisusb_init: Mark all 'static const' arrays as __maybe_unused

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jul 03 2020 - 14:30:24 EST


On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 18:41 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_init.h is included by a few
> source files. Most of which do not use the majority of the
> shared static const arrays which have been declared. This
> causes the build system to spew 100's of warnings.
>
> Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s) - and a whole lot more:
>
> In file included from drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c:54:
> drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_init.h:695:34: warning: âSiSUSB_VCLKDataâ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
> 695 | static const struct SiS_VCLKData SiSUSB_VCLKData[] = {
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> [10's of lines snipped]
> drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_init.h:206:28: warning: âSiS_VGA_DACâ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
> 206 | static const unsigned char SiS_VGA_DAC[] = {
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> [10's of lines snipped]
> drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_init.h:171:29: warning: âModeIndex_1280x1024â defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
> 171 | static const unsigned short ModeIndex_1280x1024[] = { 0x3a, 0x4d, 0x00, 0x65 };
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> [10's of lines snipped]

They are not __maybe_unused, they _are_ used.

I think these instead should be moved to where
they are used instead of being declared in an
#include file.