+Cc: Jean

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 2:13 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Ulf Hansson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 25 May 2018 at 23:07, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> The newly added runtime-pm functions cause a harmless warning
>>> when CONFIG_PM is disabled:
>>>
>>> drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c:1452:12: error: 'sunxi_mmc_runtime_suspend' 
>>> defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
>>>  static int sunxi_mmc_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev)
>>>             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c:1435:12: error: 'sunxi_mmc_runtime_resume' 
>>> defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
>>>  static int sunxi_mmc_runtime_resume(struct device *dev)
>>>
>>> This marks them as __maybe_unused to shut up the warning.
>>
>> Most mmc drivers uses #ifdef CONFIG_PM instead of the __maybe_unused() 
>> option.
>>
>> It's not a big deal, but consistency is always good. Would you mind changing?
>
> I'd prefer not to. Most uses of #ifdef CONFIG_PM that get introduced are 
> wrong,
> and cause additional randconfig warnings that I end up having to fix,
> so I always
> do it with __maybe_unused.

Some of the maintainers have strong objection against such changes.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1805.1/06100.html

It seems we might have a split in the opinions, which is not good in
this case (consistency for PM callbacks overall will be broken).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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