On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The excite platform exports hardware resources for device drivers to use. > Any driver wanting to use these resources will look up them by their names. > Since these resources are declared to have static linkage, but are not used > in the source file defining them, the compiler used to emit an 'unused' > warning, which this patch suppresses. How can a driver look them up, if they are not linked in in some structure? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds