Re: [PATCH] serial: extend compile-test coverage

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Apr 22 2021 - 03:12:04 EST


On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 3:20 AM kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:
>
> [auto build test WARNING on tty/tty-testing]
> [also build test WARNING on usb/usb-testing v5.12-rc8 next-20210421]
> [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
> And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]
>
> url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Johan-Hovold/serial-extend-compile-test-coverage/20210421-234950
> base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git tty-testing
> config: x86_64-randconfig-a014-20210421 (attached as .config)
> compiler: clang version 13.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project d87b9b81ccb95217181ce75515c6c68bbb408ca4)
> reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
> chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
> # install x86_64 cross compiling tool for clang build
> # apt-get install binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu
> # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/c010530fa587261662c6abdb59ade994645dcfa8
> git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
> git fetch --no-tags linux-review Johan-Hovold/serial-extend-compile-test-coverage/20210421-234950
> git checkout c010530fa587261662c6abdb59ade994645dcfa8
> # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 ARCH=x86_64
>
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>
> >> drivers/tty/serial/serial_txx9.c:987:12: warning: no previous prototype for function 'early_serial_txx9_setup' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> int __init early_serial_txx9_setup(struct uart_port *port)
> ^
> drivers/tty/serial/serial_txx9.c:987:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
> int __init early_serial_txx9_setup(struct uart_port *port)
> ^
> static
> 1 warning generated.

This function is called from arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c, and does
have a forward declaration in arch/mips/include/asm/txx9/generic.h.
Unfortunately the latter cannot be included from the driver, unless
the || COMPILE_TEST is dropped again.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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