From 44fe63fc0fcbfef65b5a8c015abb4dbbbcc90f23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:36:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mtd: uclinux: add a comment about why uclinux_ram_map must not be static MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I was (at least) the second person trying to fix a warning by sparse, so document in the code why this is a bad idea and add an extern declaration to make sparse happy. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Acked-by: Greg Ungerer Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy --- drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c index f56d0aa4404b..c1af83db5202 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c @@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ #define MAP_NAME "ram" #endif +/* + * Blackfin uses uclinux_ram_map during startup, so it must not be static. + * Provide a dummy declaration to make sparse happy. + */ +extern struct map_info uclinux_ram_map; + struct map_info uclinux_ram_map = { .name = MAP_NAME, .size = 0, -- 2.39.5