Re: [libsmi] Messages on Dup Imports

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:53:27PM -0800, David T. Perkins wrote:

In cleaning up a MIb module, it had the following imports:

IMPORTS OBJECT-TYPE FROM SNMPv2-SMI OBJECT-TYPE, IpAddress, MODULE-IDENTITY, enterprises FROM SNMPv2-SMI DisplayString, TruthValue FROM SNMPv2-TC;

With a level 5 or greater, smilint generated the warning: warning: identifier `OBJECT-TYPE' imported from module `SNMPv2-SMI' is never used

This is misleading. I was expecting the following two warnings:

1. duplicate definition of "OBJECT-TYPE"
2. all of the items from a module must be imported together

Have you checked the good old ASN.1 (1987) specs? I am not sure it is actually illegal to do the above. Unfortunately, it will be difficult to find the right specs and then they might be silent about this...

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