linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dma-buf/sw_sync: mark sync_timeline

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Date:   Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:33:13 +0200
From:   Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, xie.baoyou@....com.cn,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linaro MM SIG Mailman List <linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org>,
        "linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-buf/sw_sync: mark sync_timeline_create() static

Hi Baoyou,

2016-09-22 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:23:33PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> > Hi Baoyou,
> > 
> > On 20 September 2016 at 16:43, Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org> wrote:
> > > 2016-09-18 Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@...aro.org>:
> > >
> > >> We get 1 warning when building kernel with W=1:
> > >> drivers/dma-buf/sw_sync.c:87:23: warning: no previous prototype for 'sync_timeline_create' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> > >>
> > >> In fact, this function is only used in the file in which it is
> > >> declared and don't need a declaration, but can be made static.
> > >> So this patch marks it 'static'.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@...aro.org>
> > >> ---
> > >>  drivers/dma-buf/sw_sync.c | 2 +-
> > >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > Thanks for finding this.
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch; this doesn't apply to mainline yet, since the
> > de-staging of sw_sync code is queued for 4.9 via Greg-KH's tree.
> > CC'ing him.
> > 
> > Greg, would it be possible to please take this via your tree?
> 
> If someone resends it to me with the needed acks and reviewed-by, I
> will.

Could please resend this to Greg with all the acks and reviewed-by in
the commit message? Thanks.

Gustavo