The sparse tool complains as follows: net/core/dev.c:5594:1: warning: symbol '__pcpu_scope_flush_works' was not declared. Should it be static?
'flush_works' is not used outside of dev.c, so marks it static. Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hul...@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongj...@huawei.com> --- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index eab4ebe3c21c..b61075828358 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5591,7 +5591,7 @@ void netif_receive_skb_list(struct list_head *head) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_receive_skb_list); -DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct work_struct, flush_works); +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct work_struct, flush_works); /* Network device is going away, flush any packets still pending */ static void flush_backlog(struct work_struct *work)