linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: libcfs: fix sparse warnings about static declaration

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:35:18 -0800
From:	Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com>
To:	Jia He <hejianet@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: libcfs: fix sparse warnings about
 static declaration

Jia He,

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:39:38PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> make sparse happy since these two fuchtion are only used in module.c.
> tested by successful compilation.
> 
spelling: s/fuchtion/function/

Not sure if "make sparse happy" is the best way to describe what you are
doing.  You are fixing sparse warnings.

[...]
> -void
> -kportal_memhog_free (struct libcfs_device_userstate *ldu)
> +static void kportal_memhog_free (struct libcfs_device_userstate *ldu)

You might as well fix the checkpatch warning created by this line too.

[...]

These functions aren't used outside of this file so making them static
looks correct.

-- 
- Jeremiah Mahler
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