On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 07:07:16PM +0800, Ruiqi Gong wrote: > The Sparse tool reports as follows: > > drivers/base/node.c:239:1: warning: > symbol 'dev_attr_line_size' was not declared. Should it be static? > drivers/base/node.c:240:1: warning: > symbol 'dev_attr_indexing' was not declared. Should it be static? > > These symbols (and several others) are defined by DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name) in > CACHE_ATTR(name, fmt), and all of them are not used outside of node.c. So let's > mark DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name) static to solve these complains from Sparse. Why not fix them all at once? Why only one here? thanks, greg k-h