Re: [PATCH] staging: mt7621-eth: Fix sparse warning in ethtool.c

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Mar 29 2018 - 05:56:47 EST


On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:18:48PM +0100, Chris Coffey wrote:
> Include the local ethtool.h header file in mtk_eth_soc.h so
> implementation files have centralized access to it.
>
> This fixes the following sparse warning:
>
> drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/ethtool.c:213:6: warning: symbol
> 'mtk_set_ethtool_ops' was not declared. Should it be static?
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Coffey <cmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/mtk_eth_soc.c | 1 -
> drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/mtk_eth_soc.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/mtk_eth_soc.c b/drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/mtk_eth_soc.c
> index cbc7339843..0574e71573 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/mtk_eth_soc.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/mt7621-eth/mtk_eth_soc.c
> @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
>
> #include "mtk_eth_soc.h"
> #include "mdio.h"
> -#include "ethtool.h"

How about just moving ethtool.h above the mtk_eth_soc.h include?

Putting .h file dependancies in other .h files is generally not a good
idea if at all possible. Keeping them "clean" is better, and this
driver has a bunch of work to go there, so let's not make it worse :)

thanks,

greg k-h