Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] bnx2fc: mark symbols static where possible

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Sep 05 2016 - 07:22:40 EST


On Sunday, September 4, 2016 2:52:21 PM CEST Baoyou Xie wrote:
> We get a few warnings when building kernel with W=1:
> drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_els.c:257:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'bnx2fc_srr_compl' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_els.c:367:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'bnx2fc_rec_compl' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:628:5: warning: no previous prototype for 'bnx2fc_percpu_io_thread' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:1413:26: warning: no previous prototype for 'bnx2fc_interface_create' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_hwi.c:997:21: warning: no previous prototype for 'bnx2fc_alloc_work' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_io.c:1082:5: warning: no previous prototype for 'bnx2fc_abts_cleanup' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> ....
>
> In fact, these functions are only used in the file in which they are
> declared and don't need a declaration, but can be made static.
> so this patch marks these functions with 'static'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>