Re: [Openipmi-developer] (subset) [PATCH 00/34] address all -Wunused-const warnings

[Michael E. <pat...@el...>]

On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:06:18 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Compilers traditionally warn for unused 'static' variables, but not
> if they are constant. The reason here is a custom for C++ programmers
> to define named constants as 'static const' variables in header files
> instead of using macros or enums.
> 
> In W=1 builds, we get warnings only static const variables in C
> files, but not in headers, which is a good compromise, but this still
> produces warning output in at least 30 files. These warnings are
> almost all harmless, but also trivial to fix, and there is no
> good reason to warn only about the non-const variables being unused.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[01/34] powerpc/fsl-soc: hide unused const variable
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/01acaf3aa75e1641442cc23d8fe0a7bb4226efb1

cheers