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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Staging: rtl8192e: Fix sparse warning
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Joel Pelaez Jorge <joelpelaez@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Silvan Jegen <s.jegen@gmail.com>, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Sun, 2014-04-06 at 13:43 -0500, Joel Pelaez Jorge wrote:
> Fix a sparse warning, non static symbol is no declared as such.
> And fix a conflict with static function declared extern to include
> rtl_wx.h header.
> 
> drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c:1323:24: warning:
> symbol 'r8192_wx_handlers_def' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Pelaez Jorge <joelpelaez@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c |    3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c 
> b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c
> index 498995d..f17584d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
> 
>   #include <linux/string.h>
>   #include "rtl_core.h"
> +#include "rtl_wx.h"
> 
>   #define RATE_COUNT 12
>   static u32 rtl8192_rates[] = {
> @@ -1293,7 +1294,7 @@ static iw_handler r8192_private_handler[] = {
>   	(iw_handler)r8192_wx_get_PromiscuousMode,
>   };
> 
> -static struct iw_statistics *r8192_get_wireless_stats(struct net_device 
> *dev)
> +struct iw_statistics *r8192_get_wireless_stats(struct net_device *dev)
>   {
>   	struct r8192_priv *priv = rtllib_priv(dev);
>   	struct rtllib_device *ieee = priv->rtllib;

As far as I can tell, there's no reason this should
be declared in the .h file and it should stay static
and not be exposed at all.