netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: hns: mark symbols static where possible

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:53:06 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@...aro.org>
Cc:     yisen.zhuang@...wei.com, salil.mehta@...wei.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, yankejian@...wei.com,
        huangdaode@...ilicon.com, lisheng011@...wei.com, fabf@...net.be,
        xieqianqian@...wei.com, lipeng321@...wei.com,
        Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>, weiyongjun1@...wei.com,
        oulijun@...wei.com, vinod.koul@...el.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@...il.com>, xypron.glpk@....de,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        xie.baoyou@....com.cn, han.fei@....com.cn, tang.qiang007@....com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: hns: mark symbols static where possible

On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 5:48:32 PM CEST Baoyou Xie wrote:
> In fact, last month I sent a similar patch to fix the warnings, but this
> older patch is based on linux-next, not net git tree, so the patch didn't
> apply.
> 
> now, I rework the patch base on git://
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git.

I think I see the mistake that led to the confusion before: you should
base cleanups for network drivers on net-next.git, not net.git.
The correct URL is

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git

and it is usually very close to linux-next, except for patches that
just got applied and have not made it into the latest linux-next.

Only if you find a serious bug, use net.git instead so the fix can
go into the mainline kernel.

	Arnd