Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] counter: Internalize sysfs interface code

From: kbuild test robot
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 09:26:44 EST


Hi William,

I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
[also build test WARNING on v5.7-rc6 next-20200519]
[cannot apply to stm32/stm32-next linux/master]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the
base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/William-Breathitt-Gray/Introduce-the-Counter-character-device-interface/20200517-032530
base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 12bf0b632ed090358cbf03e323e5342212d0b2e4
config: arm64-randconfig-r026-20200519 (attached as .config)
compiler: clang version 11.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 135b877874fae96b4372c8a3fbfaa8ff44ff86e3)
reproduce:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
# install arm64 cross compiling tool for clang build
# apt-get install binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross ARCH=arm64

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):

>> drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.c:850:5: warning: no previous prototype for function 'counter_sysfs_add' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
int counter_sysfs_add(struct counter_device *const counter)
^
drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.c:850:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
int counter_sysfs_add(struct counter_device *const counter)
^
static
>> drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.c:876:6: warning: no previous prototype for function 'counter_sysfs_free' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
void counter_sysfs_free(struct counter_device *const counter)
^
drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.c:876:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
void counter_sysfs_free(struct counter_device *const counter)
^
static
2 warnings generated.

vim +/counter_sysfs_add +850 drivers/counter/counter-sysfs.c

849
> 850 int counter_sysfs_add(struct counter_device *const counter)
851 {
852 int err;
853
854 /* Initialize Synapse names list */
855 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&counter->dynamic_names_list);
856
857 /* Prepare device attributes */
858 err = counter_groups_list_prepare(counter);
859 if (err)
860 goto err_free_names;
861
862 /* Organize device attributes to groups and match to device */
863 err = counter_groups_prepare(counter);
864 if (err)
865 goto err_free_groups_list;
866
867 return 0;
868
869 err_free_groups_list:
870 counter_groups_list_free(counter);
871 err_free_names:
872 counter_dynamic_names_free(&counter->dynamic_names_list);
873 return err;
874 }
875
> 876 void counter_sysfs_free(struct counter_device *const counter)

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