On 9/18/19 2:00 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The symbol is now static and not used elswhere, which > leads to a warning message: > > WARNING: "ahci_em_messages" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL If you look at master, this was fixed in this merge window: commit 60fc35f327e0a9e60b955c0f3c3ed623608d1baa Author: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Aug 30 22:42:55 2019 +0300 ahci: Do not export local variable ahci_em_messages -- Jens Axboe