> We get a few warnings when building kernel with W=1: > drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_l2.c:112:5: warning: no previous > prototype for 'qed_sp_vport_start' [-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....@linaro.org>
Most of this changes are correct. I have 2 reservations, though: 1. qed_get_vport_stats() is in use in net-next by qed_main.c starting with 6c75424612a7 ("qed: Add support for NCSI statistics."), so we shouldn't make it static. [This raises the question of which repository was this patch built against?] 2. Regarding the changes in qed_cxt.c - some of the functions you're turning into static are going to be used be other files in our pending RoCE driver submissions [you could say those ARE really missing their prototypes]. I don't have a real objection to this change - I'm just stating that if you'll change those now to static, we'll probably 'revert' the change in the near future.