The sparse tool complains as follows: drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c:231:1: warning: symbol 'use_fast_ipi' was not declared. Should it be static? This symbol is not used outside of irq-apple-aic.c, so marks it static. Fixes: 2cf68211664a ("irqchip/apple-aic: Add Fast IPI support") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c index 5ac83185ff47..1c2813ad8bbe 100644 --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-apple-aic.c @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ #define AIC_TMR_EL02_PHYS AIC_TMR_GUEST_PHYS #define AIC_TMR_EL02_VIRT AIC_TMR_GUEST_VIRT -DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(use_fast_ipi); +static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(use_fast_ipi); struct aic_info { int version;