[PATCH] pinctrl: armada-37xx: remove unused variable

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Nov 3 15:21:44 PDT 2017


On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>>> A cleanup left behind a temporary variable that is now unused:
>>>
>>> drivers/pinctrl/mvebu/pinctrl-armada-37xx.c: In function 'armada_37xx_irq_startup':
>>> drivers/pinctrl/mvebu/pinctrl-armada-37xx.c:693:20: error: unused variable 'chip' [-Werror=unused-variable]
>>>
>>> This removes the declarations as well.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 3ee9e605caea ("pinctrl: armada-37xx: Stop using struct gpio_chip.irq_base")
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>
>> It is used on the head of development, so it's fixed in -next.
>>
>> Is it such a big issue for v4.14 that you think I should send it
>> to Torvalds as a fix at this point or can I just leave it?
>
> I'm confused. The build warning showed up in linux-next yesterday after
> 3ee9e605caea got merged, which removes the user of that variable.
> In v4.14 it is still used.

I just confused myself by trying to apply it to the pin control
tree while the refactorings were in the GPIO tree.

Applied it to the right tree now, thanks!

Linus Walleij



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