Re: [PATCH] HID: avoid sparse warning in HID_COMPAT_LOAD_DRIVER

From: Ben Dooks
Date: Tue Dec 16 2008 - 10:58:51 EST


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:31:31PM +0100, Hannes Eder wrote:
> Impact: include a prototype for the exported function in the macro
>
> Fix about 20 of this warnings:
>
> drivers/hid/hid-a4tech.c:162:1: warning: symbol 'hid_compat_a4tech' was not declared. Should it be static?
>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/hid.h | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h
> index 215035b..81aa84d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hid.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hid.h
> @@ -793,6 +793,8 @@ dbg_hid(const char *fmt, ...)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HID_COMPAT
> #define HID_COMPAT_LOAD_DRIVER(name) \
> +/* prototype to avoid sparse warning */ \
> +extern void hid_compat_##name(void); \
> void hid_compat_##name(void) { } \

surely this could simply be changed to 'static void hid_compat_##name(void)'
if it is only being defined to be an empty function?

> EXPORT_SYMBOL(hid_compat_##name)
> #else
> --
> 1.5.6.3
>
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