> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhor...@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 9:23 AM
> To: Kershner, David A <david.kersh...@unisys.com>
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> Alexander Paul <alexander.cur...@unisys.com>;
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> Maintainer <sparmaintai...@unisys.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/30] staging: unisys: visorbus: remove unused
> module parameters
> 
> On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 01:27:04PM -0400, David Kershner wrote:
> > From: David Binder <david.bin...@unisys.com>
> >
> > Removes unused module parameters from visorbus_main.c, in response to
> > findings by SonarQube.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Binder <david.bin...@unisys.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kersh...@unisys.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Tim Sell <timothy.s...@unisys.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c | 9 +--------
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> > index 2ed9628..71bff07 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c
> > @@ -27,10 +27,9 @@
> >  #define MYDRVNAME "visorbus"
> >
> >  /* module parameters */
> > -static int visorbus_debug;
> >  static int visorbus_forcematch;
> >  static int visorbus_forcenomatch;
> > -static int visorbus_debugref;
> > +
> >  #define SERIALLOOPBACKCHANADDR (100 * 1024 * 1024)
> >
> >  /* Display string that is guaranteed to be no longer the 99 characters*/
> > @@ -1332,9 +1331,6 @@ visorbus_exit(void)
> >     remove_bus_type();
> >  }
> >
> > -module_param_named(debug, visorbus_debug, int, S_IRUGO);
> > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(visorbus_debug, "1 to debug");
> > -
> >  module_param_named(forcematch, visorbus_forcematch, int, S_IRUGO);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(visorbus_forcematch,
> >              "1 to force a successful dev <--> drv match");
> > @@ -1342,6 +1338,3 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(visorbus_forcematch,
> >  module_param_named(forcenomatch, visorbus_forcenomatch, int,
> S_IRUGO);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(visorbus_forcenomatch,
> >              "1 to force an UNsuccessful dev <--> drv match");
> > -
> > -module_param_named(debugref, visorbus_debugref, int, S_IRUGO);
> > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(visorbus_debugref, "1 to debug reference
> counting");
> 
> visorbus_forcematch and visorbus_forcenomatch appear to be referenced in
> visorbus_match (at least in the HEAD of linus' tree).  If you're going to
> remove
> the module parameters, why not also remove those references and the
> force[no]match variables themselves?
> 
> Neil

We presently use visorbus_forcematch and visorbus_forcenomatch for
debugging purposes, and therefore decided to keep the variables in
the driver.

David Binder
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