Re: [PATCH v4 6/9] net/i40e/base: fix unused value warnings

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 08:21:44AM -0700, Andre Muezerie wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 02:07:23PM +0100, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> > On 3/28/2025 12:16 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > >Fix warnings about unused values - parameters, variables, etc., and
> > >remove the warning disable flags for them. Although modifying the
> > >base-code files is not ideal, the changes required are minor, and only
> > >affect two files from the imported base code.
> > >
> > >Fixes: 8db9e2a1b232 ("i40e: base driver")
> > >Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > >---
> > >  drivers/net/intel/i40e/base/i40e_nvm.c   |  2 +-
> > >  drivers/net/intel/i40e/base/i40e_osdep.h |  4 ++--
> > >  drivers/net/intel/i40e/base/i40e_type.h  | 14 +++++++++-----
> > >  drivers/net/intel/i40e/base/meson.build  |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c     |  1 +
> > >  5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > >
> > >diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/base/i40e_nvm.c b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/base/i40e_nvm.c
> > >index 3e16a0d997..56dc4d9279 100644
> > >--- a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/base/i40e_nvm.c
> > >+++ b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/base/i40e_nvm.c
> > >@@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ STATIC enum i40e_status_code i40e_nvmupd_get_aq_result(struct i40e_hw *hw,
> > >   **/
> > >  STATIC enum i40e_status_code i40e_nvmupd_get_aq_event(struct i40e_hw *hw,
> > >  						    struct i40e_nvm_access *cmd,
> > >-						    u8 *bytes, int *perrno)
> > >+						    u8 *bytes, __rte_unused int *perrno)
> > 
> > I don't think we should be adding __rte_unused to base code, there's
> > probably a macro for it in osdep? If not, maybe add
> > UNREFERENCED_1PARAMETER in code?
> 
> +1 to this. MSVC does not have a direct equivalent to __attribute__((__unused__))
> so it makes sense to not expand usage of __rte_unused.
> 

Ok. Will change on apply, rather that doing a respin for that one small
change.

/Bruce