Since we put static variable to a header file it's copied to each module that includes the header. But not all of them are actually used it. Mark gpio_suffixes array with __maybe_unused to hide a compiler warning: In file included from drivers/gpio/gpiolib-legacy.c:6:0: drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h:95:27: warning: ‘gpio_suffixes’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] static const char * const gpio_suffixes[] = { "gpios", "gpio" }; ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from drivers/gpio/gpiolib-devprop.c:17:0: drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h:95:27: warning: ‘gpio_suffixes’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] static const char * const gpio_suffixes[] = { "gpios", "gpio" }; ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h index 1a8e20363861..a7e49fef73d4 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct acpi_gpio_info { }; /* gpio suffixes used for ACPI and device tree lookup */ -static const char * const gpio_suffixes[] = { "gpios", "gpio" }; +static __maybe_unused const char * const gpio_suffixes[] = { "gpios", "gpio" }; #ifdef CONFIG_OF_GPIO struct gpio_desc *of_find_gpio(struct device *dev, -- 2.18.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html