We get 1 warning when building kernel with W=1: drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c:56:12: warning: no previous prototype for 'early_smh_setup' [-Wmissing-prototypes] In fact, this function is only used in the file in which it is declared and don't need a declaration, but can be made static. so this patch marks this function with 'static'. Signed-off-by: Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c index 383db10..6bbeb69 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/earlycon-arm-semihost.c @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ static void smh_write(struct console *con, const char *s, unsigned n) uart_console_write(&dev->port, s, n, smh_putc); } -int __init early_smh_setup(struct earlycon_device *device, const char *opt) +static int +__init early_smh_setup(struct earlycon_device *device, const char *opt) { device->con->write = smh_write; return 0; -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html