[libvirt] [PATCH] Remove unused macros and enable -Wunused-macros

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 16:29:47 UTC 2011


On 07/12/2011 10:04 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Any thoughts on this patch
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 01:48:16PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> I'm only 80% convinced that this patch is a good idea
>> because in some cases I'm not entirely happy about
>> commenting out macros that may well be used in the near
>> future. On the plus side it has identified a reasonable
>> number of unused legacy crufty macros

I'm also not convinced on whether to turn it on by default.  It seems
like it has a rather high a risk of false positives.

>>
>> This enables the -Wunused-macros GCC flag to identify
>> historical macros which are no longer used due to
>> code refactoring.
>>
>> * m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4: Enable -Wunused-macros
>> * daemon/libvirtd.c: Remove MAX_LISTEN
>> * daemon/remote.c: Remove VIR_FROM_THIS
>> * examples/domain-events/events-c/event-test.c: Remove VIR_DEBUG
>> * python/libvirt-override.c: Put NAME() inside DEBUG_ERROR
>> * src/esx/esx*.c: Comment out unused VIR_FROM_THIS
>> * src/node_device/node_device_hal.c: Remove pointless macros
>>   for accessing privateData
>> * src/openvz/openvz_driver.c: Remove CMDBUF_LEN/CMDOP_LEN
>> * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c: Remove QEMU_CMD_PROMPT
>>   and QEMU_PASSWD_PROMPT
>> * src/remote/remote_driver.c: Remove UNIX_PATH_MAX
>> * src/security/security_stack.c: Remove VIR_FROM_THIS
>> * src/uml/uml_conf.c: Remove umlLog()
>> * src/uml/uml_driver.c: Remove TEMPDIR
>> * src/util/bridge.c: Remove JIFFIES_TO_MS/MS_TO_JIFFIES
>> * src/util/hooks.c: Ensure VIR_FROM_THIS is used
>> * src/util/logging.c: Remove VIR_FROM_THIS
>> * src/util/macvtap.c: Disable unused constants
>> * src/util/storage_file.c: Disable QCOW1_HDR_TOTAL_SIZE
>> * src/vbox/vbox_driver.c: Remove duplicated VIR_FROM_THIS
>>   and make sure it is used
>> * src/util/pci.c: Disable some unused constants
>> * src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c: Remove XEN_V0_IOCTL_HYPERCALL_CMD
>>   and unused DOMFLAGS_CPUMASK/DOMFLAGS_CPUSHIFT
>> * src/xen/xm_internal.c: Remove XM_XML_ERROR,
>>   XEND_CONFIG_MAX_VERS_NET_TYPE_IOEMU and
>>   XEND_CONFIG_MIN_VERS_PVFB_NEWCONF
>> * tools/virsh.c: Remove DIR_MODE/LOCK_MODE, LVL_NOTICE constants
>> * tests/sockettest.c: Remove DO_TEST_PARSE

I haven't looked through this patch yet, but it seems like most of the
hunks would be obviously good to make, even if we decide not to enable
-Wunused-macros.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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