On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 21:05 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > 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 using it. > > Mark nvmem_type_str array with __maybe_unused to make a compiler happy: > > In file included from include/linux/rtc.h:18, > from drivers/rtc/rtc-proc.c:15: > include/linux/nvmem-provider.h:29:27: warning: ‘nvmem_type_str’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] > static const char * const nvmem_type_str[] = { It would be better to move this definition into the one file that seems to use it. $ git grep -w nvmem_type_str drivers/nvmem/core.c: return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", nvmem_type_str[nvmem->type]) include/linux/nvmem-provider.h:static const char * const nvmem_type_str[] = {