Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: mark symbols static where possible

From: Thomas Petazzoni
Date: Sun Sep 18 2016 - 07:33:51 EST


Hello,

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:20:45 +0800, Baoyou Xie wrote:
> We get 2 warnings when building kernel with W=1:
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c:639:27: warning: no previous prototype for 'mvneta_get_stats64' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c:3529:5: warning: no previous prototype for 'mvneta_ethtool_set_link_ksettings' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
>
> In fact, these functions are only used in the file in which they are
> declared and don't need a declaration, but can be made static.
> so this patch marks these functions with 'static'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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