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Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:36:23 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: validate_xmit_vlan() is static

On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 12:07 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:44:02AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 11:26 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > > 
> > > Marking this as static allows compiler to inline it.
> > 
> > Found by inspection or another tool?
> > 
> > Wasn't there some tool to look for non-static functions
> > that are not called externally that could/should be
> > converted to static?
> 
> Several: sparse,

Doesn't find anything for this use case

> gcc -Wmissing-prototypes, and findstatic.pl.

Right, thanks, using "make W=1" adds -Wmissing-prototypes.



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