Hi man... On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Occasionally during kernel builds I get some unused variable warnings. > But when I go and check the code the variable is getting used. > Interestingly I have seen this problem only with the file symbols > exported from fs/locks.c. An example of such errors is > > fs/lockd/svclock.c:719: warning: unused variable 'file' > fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c:154: warning: unused variable 'dentry' > fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:1626: warning: unused variable 'flp' > > Is there some problem with the way symbols are exported ?? Out of the > above 3, 2 of them are exported as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and one of them > as EXPORT_SYMBOL My best guess so far is: probably they "seem" not being used because they are just variable that are not really being used and end up simply exported? or perhaps they are "aliased" (not sure if I use correct term...it's kinda using pointer that simply points to them or something like them). regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
