RE: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix harmless building warnings without CONFIG_PM

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> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 12:33 AM
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:38 PM Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 5:11 AM
> > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:19 AM Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > > I think this will still produce a warning if CONFIG_PM is set but
> > > CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is not, possibly in other configurations as
> > > well.
> >
> > You're correct. Thanks!
> >
> > I'll use " #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP ... #endif" instead.
> >
> > The mentioned functions are only used in the micros
> > SET_NOIRQ_SYSTEM_SLEEP_PM_OPS, which is empty if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
> > is not defined. So it looks to me using "#ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP ..." should
> > resolve the issue.
> 
> Probably, yes. There are sometimes surprising effects, such as when one of the
> functions inside of the #ifdef call another function that is otherwise unused.

I reviewed the related functions again and I believe with the v2 we don't have
such an issue as you described here.
 
> I would normally try to build a few hundred randconfig builds to be fairly sure
> of a change like this, or use __maybe_unused like most other drivers do here.
> 
>        Arnd

I do see a lot of drivers using __maybe_unused, but IMO conditional
compilation is slightly better. In case conditional compilation still has some
unexpected issue, we can always make a further fix. :-)

Thanks,
-- Dexuan




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