diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4e55fad4c6..ae5678f83f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Mar 20 21:43:57 CET 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
+
+	* src/util.c: flag unused parameters, by Maximilian Wilhelm
+
 Fri Mar 20 13:16:01 CET 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
 
 	* src/libvirt_private.syms src/storage_backend_fs.c src/util.c
diff --git a/src/util.c b/src/util.c
index 93d2937d2b..a40ff1760e 100644
--- a/src/util.c
+++ b/src/util.c
@@ -121,14 +121,14 @@ ssize_t safewrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
 }
 
 #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE
-int safezero(int fd, int flags, off_t offset, off_t len)
+int safezero(int fd, int flags ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, off_t offset, off_t len)
 {
     return posix_fallocate(fd, offset, len);
 }
 #else
 
 #ifdef HAVE_MMAP
-int safezero(int fd, int flags, off_t offset, off_t len)
+int safezero(int fd, int flags ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, off_t offset, off_t len)
 {
     int r;
     char *buf;
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ int safezero(int fd, int flags, off_t offset, off_t len)
 
 #else /* HAVE_MMAP */
 
-int safezero(int fd, int flags, off_t offset, off_t len)
+int safezero(int fd, int flags ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, off_t offset, off_t len)
 {
     int r;
     char *buf;