Re: [PATCH] swapon: Make needlessly global variables static

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On 2011-01-31 at 16:19:33 +0100, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:23:23AM +0100, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > On 2011-01-23 at 20:46:31 +0100, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:44:18PM +0100, Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > > > Also constify the option array.
> > > 
> > >  Please, could be more verbose? Why we need this patch?
> > 
> > Sorry about that.
> > 
> > I was running sparse against util-linux-ng and it warned about the
> > global symbols:
> > 
> > swapon.c:61:5: warning: symbol 'all' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > swapon.c:62:5: warning: symbol 'priority' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > swapon.c:63:5: warning: symbol 'discard' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > swapon.c:66:5: warning: symbol 'ifexists' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > swapon.c:67:5: warning: symbol 'fixpgsz' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > swapon.c:69:5: warning: symbol 'verbose' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > swapon.c:70:6: warning: symbol 'progname' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > 
> > While there I noticed the option array not being const which usually is
> > the case as these arrays tend not to be modified.
> > 
> > There are sparse warnings in other parts too. Are you OK with such
> > patches (e.g. shall I submit them) or is this just nitpicking?
> 
>  Applied, thanks ...but it's nitpicking ;-)

Ok, I'll leave them alone then :-) Thanks.

> > > > -static struct option longswaponopts[] = {
> > > > +static const struct option longswaponopts[] = {
> > > >  		/* swapon only */
> > > >  	{ "priority", required_argument, 0, 'p' },
> > > >  	{ "discard", 0, 0, 'd' },
> > > > @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static struct option longswaponopts[] = {
> > > >  	{ NULL, 0, 0, 0 }
> > > >  };
> > > >  
> > > > -static struct option *longswapoffopts = &longswaponopts[4];
> > > > +static const struct option *longswapoffopts = &longswaponopts[4];
> 
>  This is probably more serious that the "static" stuff. I think there
>  is many other places in the u-l code where "const" makes sense.

I'll look into these and send patches then, if that's OK with you.
Arrays of struct option seem to be a good starting point.

  Tobias
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