linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: sysfs: remove pci_bridge_groups and pcie_dev

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Message-ID: <5e7cae3e-399a-523b-2c54-fbecaefb81bf@codethink.co.uk>
Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:31:43 +0100
From:   Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...ts.codethink.co.uk,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: sysfs: remove pci_bridge_groups and pcie_dev_groups

On 16/10/2019 07:28, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
>> The pci_bridge_groups and pcie_dev_groups objects are
>> not exported and not used at-all, so remove them to
>> fix the following warnings from sparse:
>>
>> drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1546:30: warning: symbol 'pci_bridge_groups' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:1555:30: warning: symbol 'pcie_dev_groups' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> But now pci_bridge_group is unused, and if you remove that the
> attributes, etc..

Hmm, didn't get a warning for that. I'll go check.


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