Usually it's not necessary to declare static functions if the symbols are in the right order. Moving the definition of acpi_wmi_driver down in the compilation unit allows to drop two such declarations. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 21 +++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c index aed293b5af81..dbc535b772b3 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c @@ -95,9 +95,6 @@ module_param(debug_dump_wdg, bool, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug_dump_wdg, "Dump available WMI interfaces [0/1]"); -static int acpi_wmi_remove(struct platform_device *device); -static int acpi_wmi_probe(struct platform_device *device); - static const struct acpi_device_id wmi_device_ids[] = { {"PNP0C14", 0}, {"pnp0c14", 0}, @@ -105,15 +102,6 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id wmi_device_ids[] = { }; MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, wmi_device_ids); -static struct platform_driver acpi_wmi_driver = { - .driver = { - .name = "acpi-wmi", - .acpi_match_table = wmi_device_ids, - }, - .probe = acpi_wmi_probe, - .remove = acpi_wmi_remove, -}; - /* * GUID parsing functions */ @@ -1449,6 +1437,15 @@ void wmi_driver_unregister(struct wmi_driver *driver) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(wmi_driver_unregister); +static struct platform_driver acpi_wmi_driver = { + .driver = { + .name = "acpi-wmi", + .acpi_match_table = wmi_device_ids, + }, + .probe = acpi_wmi_probe, + .remove = acpi_wmi_remove, +}; + static int __init acpi_wmi_init(void) { int error; base-commit: 568035b01cfb107af8d2e4bd2fb9aea22cf5b868 -- 2.37.2