The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 6.0-stable tree. I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 2c57d0defa22b2339c06364a275bcc9048a77255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nilesh Javali <njavali@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:25:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] scsi: qla2xxx: Define static symbols drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:40:20: warning: symbol 'qla_trc_array' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:345:5: warning: symbol 'ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling' was not declared. Should it be static? Define qla_trc_array and ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling as static to fix sparse warnings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220826102559.17474-7-njavali@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nilesh Javali <njavali@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c index f76ae8a64ea9..0ccaeea4e1bd 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static int apidev_major; */ struct kmem_cache *srb_cachep; -struct trace_array *qla_trc_array; +static struct trace_array *qla_trc_array; int ql2xfulldump_on_mpifail; module_param(ql2xfulldump_on_mpifail, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR); @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(ql2xabts_wait_nvme, "To wait for ABTS response on I/O timeouts for NVMe. (default: 1)"); -u32 ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling = 5; +static u32 ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling = 5; module_param(ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling, uint, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(ql2xdelay_before_pci_error_handling, "Number of seconds delayed before qla begin PCI error self-handling (default: 5).\n");
