The patch titled kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c tick_broadcast_device can become static has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kernel-time-tick-broadcastc-tick_broadcast_device-can-become-static.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c tick_broadcast_device can become static From: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxxx> The variable tick_broadcast_device is not used outside of the file where it is defined, so let's make it static. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c~kernel-time-tick-broadcastc-tick_broadcast_device-can-become-static kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c~kernel-time-tick-broadcastc-tick_broadcast_device-can-become-static +++ a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ * timer stops in C3 state. */ -struct tick_device tick_broadcast_device; +static struct tick_device tick_broadcast_device; /* FIXME: Use cpumask_var_t. */ static DECLARE_BITMAP(tick_broadcast_mask, NR_CPUS); static DECLARE_BITMAP(tmpmask, NR_CPUS); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dmitri.vorobiev@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch kernel-time-tick-broadcastc-tick_broadcast_device-can-become-static.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html