On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 04:56:59PM -0400, Jeff Oczek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 01:17:22PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 04:07:51PM -0400, Jeff Oczek wrote: > > > Put extern declarations in cxt1e1_common.h to reduce sparse warnings for linux.c: > > > > I know you didn't name this variable, but wow, that's a horrid name for > > a global variable :) > > > > Any way you could change this to first fix up the name of the variable > > to something a bit more "device-specific" first, before this patch? > > > > Perhaps "cxt1e1_error_flag"? > > > > > +extern int cxt1e1_max_mru; > > > +extern int cxt1e1_max_mtu; > > > > These are fine. > > > > > +extern int max_mtu_default; > > > +extern int max_txdesc_used; > > > +extern int max_txdesc_default; > > > +extern int max_rxdesc_used; > > > +extern int max_rxdesc_default; > > > > Again, these are bad names, can you do the same thing here? > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > Hi Greg, > > max_txdesc_used and max_rxdesc_used are module parameters, Ugh :( > is it ok to change them? I'm quite new to this -- I don't know if that > would count as breaking userspace or not. Yeah, we can't change them, good catch. > If not allowed, I could go the route of changing these less descriptive ones > to static in the main file and then make an assignment to the global vars > during the module init. That would be the best thing to do. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
