On 20/02/2019 10:37, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 11:34, Sumit Garg <sumit.g...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 14:51, Wei Yongjun <weiyongj...@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Fixes the following sparse warning:
>>>
>>> drivers/char/hw_random/optee-rng.c:265:35: warning:
>>> symbol 'optee_rng_id_table' was not declared. Should it be static?
>>>
>>
>> I haven't observed this warning during my normal Linux build using
>> gcc. Is there any specific configuration you are using?
>>
>
> This is a sparse warning, not GCC. You need to install it separately
> and build with C=1 (iirc)
>
It's useful to may these symbols static just to reduce the scope and
there is on-going work to fix these symbols up across the entire kernel
