linux-kernel - [PATCH] lib: make struct pointer foo static

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Date:   Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:22:06 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] lib: make struct pointer foo static

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The pointer foo is local to the source and does not need to be
in global scope, so make it static.

Cleans up sparse warning:
symbol 'foo' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 lib/test_debug_virtual.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/test_debug_virtual.c b/lib/test_debug_virtual.c
index b9cdeecc19dc..d5a06addeb27 100644
--- a/lib/test_debug_virtual.c
+++ b/lib/test_debug_virtual.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ struct foo {
 	unsigned int bar;
 };
 
-struct foo *foo;
+static struct foo *foo;
 
 static int __init test_debug_virtual_init(void)
 {
-- 
2.17.0