Re: [PATCH] net: hns: mark symbols static where possible

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Sep 19 2016 - 21:56:43 EST


From: Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:07:25 +0800

> We get a few warnings when building kernel with W=1:
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hisi_femac.c:943:5: warning: no previous prototype for 'hisi_femac_drv_suspend' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hisi_femac.c:960:5: warning: no previous prototype for 'hisi_femac_drv_resume' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:76:21: warning: no previous prototype for 'hns_ae_get_handle' [-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>

Does not apply cleanly to net-next, please respin.