Thread (40 messages) 40 messages, 9 authors, 2013-12-20

Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] drivers: net: Put prototype declaration for function sbni_probe() in sbni.c

From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Date: 2013-12-15 03:42:00
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:26:58PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
From: Rashika Kheria <redacted>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:55:42 +0530
quoted
This patch declares the prototype for the function sbni_probe() in file sbni.c.

Thus, it also removes the following warning in wan/sbni.c:
drivers/net/wan/sbni.c:224:12: warning: no previous prototype for ‘sbni_probe’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <redacted>
---

This revision fixes the following issues of the previous revision:
Incorrect fix

 drivers/net/wan/sbni.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/sbni.c b/drivers/net/wan/sbni.c
index 388ddf6..5061ffd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/sbni.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/sbni.c
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static void __init sbni_devsetup(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->netdev_ops = &sbni_netdev_ops;
 }
 
+int __init sbni_probe(int unit);
 int __init sbni_probe(int unit)
This is not the correct way to fix this kind of warning, an exported
function needs to appear in a header file so that both the definition
and any callers of this function will see the same declaration in that
header file.
It should, yes; however, in this case, the function is one of several
dozen that are directly prototyped and used by drivers/net/Space.c, and
there's no header file prototyping any of those functions.

Do you have a suggestion for what header file should contain a prototype
for this probe function?

- Josh Triplett
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