linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: mlx-platform: make a couple of structures static

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Message-ID: <20171009182900.GH12321@fury>
Date:   Mon, 9 Oct 2017 11:29:00 -0700
From:   Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@...lanox.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: mlx-platform: make a couple of structures
 static

On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 05:03:41PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> >
> > The structures mlxplat_dev and mlxplat_hotplug are local to the source
> > and do not need to be in global scope, so make them static.
> >
> > Cleans up sparse warnings:
> > symbol 'mlxplat_dev' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > symbol 'mlxplat_hotplug' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> Thanks for the patch.
> Since Vadim did some rather big driver changes I would like to hear
> from him how to proceed with this one: either I apply it now, or after
> we get Vadim's series in.

I'll be working with Vadim's series shortly and would like to take this
after that is settled.

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center