linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Remove the goldfish_interrupt

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Date:   Tue, 2 Oct 2018 15:30:21 -0700
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     rkir@...gle.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tkjos@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Remove the
 goldfish_interrupt_tasklet global variable

On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:18:49PM -0700, rkir@...gle.com wrote:
> From: Roman Kiryanov <rkir@...gle.com>
> 
> This is a series of patches to remove mutable global variables
> to introduce another version of the pipe driver for the older
> host interface. I don't want to have two driver states where only
> one is used.

I don't see a "global" variable here, what are you referring to.

This one:

> -static DECLARE_TASKLET(goldfish_interrupt_tasklet, goldfish_interrupt_task, 0);

?

That looks static to this file to me.

what am I missing here?

greg k-h