On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:49:56PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/17/2014 08:28 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 06:19:50 PM, Jianyu Zhan wrote:
> >> Commit 128ea04a9885("lto: Make asmlinkage __visible") restricts
> >> asmlinkage to externally_visible, this causes compilation warnings:
> >>
> >> arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c:56:1:
> >> warning: ‘externally_visible’ attribute have effect only on public
> >> objects [-Wattributes]
> >>
> >> static asmlinkage void (*sha256_transform_asm)(const char *, u32 *,
> >> u64); ^
> >>
> >> arch/x86/crypto/sha512_ssse3_glue.c:55:1:
> >> warning: ‘externally_visible’ attribute have effect only on public
> >> objects [-Wattributes] static asmlinkage void
> >> (*sha512_transform_asm)(const char *, u64 *, ^
> >>
> >> Drop asmlinkage here to avoid such warnings.
> >>
> >> Also see Commit 8783dd3a37a5853689e1("irqchip: Remove asmlinkage from
> >> static functions")
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Makes sense, please add my humble
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx>
> >
>
> It doesn't make sense, sorry. The right thing to drop here is not
> "asmlinkage", it is "static": this is an external declaration.
It's a function pointer that's static, not the function that
it's pointing to.
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