Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: r8188eu: Remove unused static inline functions in rtw_recv.h

[Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 21:40, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> After commit 987219ad34a6 ("staging: r8188eu: remove lines from Makefile
> that silence build warnings"), clang warns several times:
>
> In file included from
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/../include/drv_types.h:22:
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/../include/rtw_recv.h:395:9: warning:
> variable 'buf_desc' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
>         return buf_desc;
>                ^~~~~~~~
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/../include/rtw_recv.h:391:25: note:
> initialize the variable 'buf_desc' to silence this warning
>         unsigned char *buf_desc;
>                                ^
>                                 = NULL
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/../include/rtw_recv.h:412:52: warning:
> variable 'buf_star' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
>         precv_frame = rxmem_to_recvframe((unsigned char *)buf_star);
>                                                           ^~~~~~~~
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/../include/rtw_recv.h:410:14: note:
> initialize the variable 'buf_star' to silence this warning
>         u8 *buf_star;
>                     ^
>                      = NULL
> 2 warnings generated.
>
> The functions that these warnings come from are not used or are called
> from functions that are not used so just remove them to remove the
> warnings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_recv.h | 46 ----------------------
>  1 file changed, 46 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_recv.h b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_recv.h
> index 857269ae4209..81594e7aed51 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_recv.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_recv.h
> @@ -386,52 +386,6 @@ static inline u8 *recvframe_pull_tail(struct recv_frame *precvframe, int sz)
>         return precvframe->rx_tail;
>  }
>
> -static inline unsigned char *get_rxbuf_desc(struct recv_frame *precvframe)
> -{
> -       unsigned char *buf_desc;
> -
> -       if (precvframe == NULL)
> -               return NULL;
> -       return buf_desc;
> -}
> -
> -static inline struct recv_frame *rxmem_to_recvframe(u8 *rxmem)
> -{
> -       /* due to the design of 2048 bytes alignment of recv_frame,
> -        * we can reference the struct recv_frame */
> -       /* from any given member of recv_frame. */
> -       /*  rxmem indicates the any member/address in recv_frame */
> -
> -       return (struct recv_frame *)(((size_t)rxmem >> RXFRAME_ALIGN) << RXFRAME_ALIGN);
> -}
> -
> -static inline struct recv_frame *pkt_to_recvframe(struct sk_buff *pkt)
> -{
> -       u8 *buf_star;
> -       struct recv_frame *precv_frame;
> -       precv_frame = rxmem_to_recvframe((unsigned char *)buf_star);
> -
> -       return precv_frame;
> -}
> -
> -static inline u8 *pkt_to_recvmem(struct sk_buff *pkt)
> -{
> -       /*  return the rx_head */
> -
> -       struct recv_frame *precv_frame = pkt_to_recvframe(pkt);
> -
> -       return  precv_frame->rx_head;
> -}
> -
> -static inline u8 *pkt_to_recvdata(struct sk_buff *pkt)
> -{
> -       /*  return the rx_data */
> -
> -       struct recv_frame *precv_frame = pkt_to_recvframe(pkt);
> -
> -       return  precv_frame->rx_data;
> -}
> -
>  static inline int get_recvframe_len(struct recv_frame *precvframe)
>  {
>         return precvframe->len;
> --
> 2.33.0.rc2
>

Dear Nathan,

Thanks for this.

Acked-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>

Regards,
Phil