Hi man...

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Manish Katiyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Occasionally during kernel builds I get some unused variable warnings.
> But when I go and check the code the variable is getting used.
> Interestingly I have seen this problem only with the file symbols
> exported from fs/locks.c. An example of such errors is
>
> fs/lockd/svclock.c:719: warning: unused variable 'file'
> fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c:154: warning: unused variable 'dentry'
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:1626: warning: unused variable 'flp'
>
> Is there some problem with the way symbols are exported ?? Out of the
> above 3, 2 of them are exported as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and one of them
> as EXPORT_SYMBOL

My best guess so far is: probably they "seem" not being used because
they are just variable that are not really being used and end up
simply exported? or perhaps they are "aliased" (not sure if I use
correct term...it's kinda using pointer that simply points to them or
something like them).

regards,

Mulyadi.

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