4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> commit abb2ea7dfd82451d85ce669b811310c05ab5ca46 upstream. GCC explicitly does not warn for unused static inline functions for -Wunused-function. The manual states: Warn whenever a static function is declared but not defined or a non-inline static function is unused. Clang does warn for static inline functions that are unused. It turns out that suppressing the warnings avoids potentially complex #ifdef directives, which also reduces LOC. Suppress the warning for clang. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h @@ -15,3 +15,10 @@ * with any version that can compile the kernel */ #define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__) + +/* + * GCC does not warn about unused static inline functions for + * -Wunused-function. This turns out to avoid the need for complex #ifdef + * directives. Suppress the warning in clang as well. + */ +#define inline inline __attribute__((unused))
