From: Baoyou Xie <baoyou....@linaro.org> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:13:38 +0800
> We get a few warnings when building kernel with W=1: > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:76:21: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_get_handle' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:274:6: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_stop' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:302:6: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_toggle_ring_irq' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:490:6: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_update_stats' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:573:6: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_get_stats' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:605:6: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_get_strings' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:638:5: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_get_sset_count' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:687:6: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_update_led_status' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:698:5: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_cpld_set_led_id' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:710:6: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_get_regs' [-Wmissing-prototypes] > drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_ae_adapt.c:735:5: warning: no previous > prototype for 'hns_ae_get_regs_len' [-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> This still doesn't apply to the net-next tree. If you aren't actually building your patch against the net-next tree, don't bother submitting these patches any more.