Sparse complains that it has no external declaration, and it turns out that it is never even used outside of md.c. So just mark it static and drop the export. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index d1d7d20592af..3cd662c2863c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -88,8 +88,7 @@ static struct kobj_type md_ktype; struct md_cluster_operations *md_cluster_ops; EXPORT_SYMBOL(md_cluster_ops); -struct module *md_cluster_mod; -EXPORT_SYMBOL(md_cluster_mod); +static struct module *md_cluster_mod; static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(resync_wait); static struct workqueue_struct *md_wq; -- 2.20.1