Hi "Carlos, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on linuxtv-media/master] [cannot apply to v5.4-rc1 next-20191004] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Carlos-E-C-Barbosa/media-vimc-get-pixformat-info-from-v4l2_format_info-to-avoid-code-repetition/20191006-053120 base: git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git master reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.1-rc1-42-g38eda53-dirty make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> drivers/media/platform/vimc/vimc-common.c:121:21: sparse: sparse: symbol 'vimc_pix_map_fmt_info' was not declared. Should it be static? Please review and possibly fold the followup patch. --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation