Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the i2c tree

From: Jie Deng <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:54:12 +0800

On 2021/8/18 14:29, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the i2c tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allyesconfig) produced this warning:
>
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-virtio.c: In function 'virtio_i2c_probe':
> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-virtio.c:208:17: warning: unused variable 'pdev' [-Wunused-variable]
>    208 |  struct device *pdev = vdev->dev.parent;
>        |                 ^~~~
>
> Introduced by commit
>
>    8fb12751ac78 ("i2c: virtio: add a virtio i2c frontend driver")

Why we have this warning ? In commit 8fb12751ac78, the variable 'pdev' 
was used in line 237.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git/commit/?h=i2c/for-next&id=8fb12751ac78d0a4ba3c604496ffc8dcd1bd6c31