Re: [PATCH] coresight: catu: fix clang build warning

From: Suzuki K Poulose
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 05:48:29 EST


Hi Arnd,

On 07/03/2019 10:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Clang points out a syntax error, as the etr_catu_buf_ops structure is
declared 'static' before the type is known:

In file included from drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etr.c:12:
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h:116:40: warning: tentative definition of variable with internal linkage has incomplete non-array type 'const struct etr_buf_operations' [-Wtentative-definition-incomplete-type]
static const struct etr_buf_operations etr_catu_buf_ops;
^
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-catu.h:116:21: note: forward declaration of 'struct etr_buf_operations'
static const struct etr_buf_operations etr_catu_buf_ops;

This seems worth fixing in the code, so replace pointer to the empty
constant structure with a NULL pointer. We need an extra NULL pointer
check here, but the result should be better object code otherwise,
avoiding the silly empty structure.

Fixes: 434d611cddef ("coresight: catu: Plug in CATU as a backend for ETR buffer")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix.

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>