It's used only in the driver, so declare it as local to silence this correct sparse warning: sunplus-uart.c:501:26: warning: symbol 'sunplus_console_ports' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/sunplus-uart.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sunplus-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sunplus-uart.c index 9f15922e681b..60c73662f955 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sunplus-uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sunplus-uart.c @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static const struct uart_ops sunplus_uart_ops = { }; #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_SUNPLUS_CONSOLE -struct sunplus_uart_port *sunplus_console_ports[SUP_UART_NR]; +static struct sunplus_uart_port *sunplus_console_ports[SUP_UART_NR]; static void sunplus_uart_console_putchar(struct uart_port *port, unsigned char ch) -- 2.36.0