Hi Keyon, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on asoc/for-next] [also build test WARNING on v5.7-rc5 next-20200512] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Keyon-Jie/ASoC-topology-refine-and-log-the-header-in-the-correct-pass/20200513-021507 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git for-next reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.1-191-gc51a0382-dirty make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> sound/soc/soc-topology.c:2639:5: sparse: sparse: symbol 'elem_load' was not declared. Should it be static? Please review and possibly fold the followup patch. --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@xxxxxxxxxxxx