On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 05:30:31AM +0530, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote: > The global gpio_desc pointer and int were defined in the header, > instead put the definitions in the translation unit and add an extern > declaration for consumers of the header (currently only one, which is > perhaps why the linker didn't complain about symbol collisions). > > This fixes sparse related warnings for this driver: > drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.c: note: in included file: > drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h:23:18: warning: symbol 'vbus_gpio' was not declared. Should it be static? > drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h:24:5: warning: symbol 'vbus_irq' was not declared. Should it be static? > > Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.c | 3 +++ > drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h | 4 ++-- > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.c b/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.c > index a30b4f5b1..6983c3e31 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.c > @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ > #define DRIVER_DESC "EMXX UDC driver" > #define DMA_ADDR_INVALID (~(dma_addr_t)0) > > +struct gpio_desc *vbus_gpio; > +int vbus_irq; A tiny driver can not create global variables with generic names like this, sorry. That will polute the global namespace. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel