Re: [PATCH 2/3] [MIPS] fix missing prototypes in asm/fpu.h

From: Ralf Baechle
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 04:45:38 EST


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:57:31PM +0300, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote:

> While building the Malta defconfig, sparse spat the following
> warnings:
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> arch/mips/math-emu/kernel_linkage.c:31:6: warning: symbol
> 'fpu_emulator_init_fpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
>
> arch/mips/math-emu/kernel_linkage.c:54:5: warning: symbol
> 'fpu_emulator_save_context' was not declared. Should it be
> static?
>
> arch/mips/math-emu/kernel_linkage.c:68:5: warning: symbol
> 'fpu_emulator_restore_context' was not declared. Should it be
> static?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> This patch fixes these errors by adding the proper prototypes
> to the include/asm-mips/fpu.h header, and actually using this
> header in the sparse-spotted source file.

I'm not terribly fond of exporting these private prototypes by making
their prototypes widely available. I see it's need to make sparse a more
productive tool, so I applied the patch though.

Thanks,

Ralf
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