Re: [PATCH] block: Fix sparse warning

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:30:40 +0530
Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org> wrote:

> blk_drain_queue is only used in this file, so should be marked static.
> 
> Fixes following sparse warning.
> 
> block/blk-core.c:361:6: warning: symbol 'blk_drain_queue' was not
> declared. Should it be static?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>
> ---
>  block/blk-core.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> index a8b1527..5db63eb 100644
> --- a/block/blk-core.c
> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
> @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_put_queue);
>   * If not, only ELVPRIV requests are drained.  The caller is responsible
>   * for ensuring that no new requests which need to be drained are queued.
>   */
> -void blk_drain_queue(struct request_queue *q, bool drain_all)
> +static void blk_drain_queue(struct request_queue *q, bool drain_all)
>  {
>  	int i;

nit: the objective of this patch is not to reduce the sparse output; it
is to improve the kernel by giving an unnecessarily-global symbol
static scope.

So a better title is one which describes the code fix.  The fact that
sparse happened to detect it is less important.  I chose
"block/blk-core.c: make blk_drain_queue() static".