Hi Petr, Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on v6.0-rc4] [also build test WARNING on linus/master next-20220901] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information] url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Petr-Pavlu/module-Merge-same-name-module-load-requests/20220905-164434 base: 7e18e42e4b280c85b76967a9106a13ca61c16179 config: i386-randconfig-s033-20220905 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220905/202209052214.GvWvd88T-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config) compiler: gcc-11 (Debian 11.3.0-5) 11.3.0 reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.4-39-gce1a6720-dirty # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/581eb179f101ce9990a4435e198280b542fa68ed git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Petr-Pavlu/module-Merge-same-name-module-load-requests/20220905-164434 git checkout 581eb179f101ce9990a4435e198280b542fa68ed # save the config file mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=i386 SHELL=/bin/bash kernel/module/ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> kernel/module/main.c:81:1: sparse: sparse: symbol 'running_loads' was not declared. Should it be static? -- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service https://01.org/lkp