On 7/17/2020 9:53 PM, kernel test robot wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:
>
> [auto build test WARNING on net-next/master]
>
> url:
> https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Florian-Fainelli/net-dsa-Setup-dsa_netdev_ops/20200718-110931
> base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git
> dcc82bb0727c08f93a91fa7532b950bafa2598f2
> config: i386-allyesconfig (attached as .config)
> compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-14) 9.3.0
> reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
> # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> make W=1 ARCH=i386
>
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <l...@intel.com>
>
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
>
> In file included from
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac1000_core.c:18:
>>> include/net/dsa.h:720:1: warning: 'inline' is not at beginning of
>>> declaration [-Wold-style-declaration]
> 720 | dsa_build_ndo_op(ndo_do_ioctl, struct ifreq *, ifr, int, cmd);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/net/dsa.h:721:1: warning: 'inline' is not at beginning of
> declaration [-Wold-style-declaration]
> 721 | dsa_build_ndo_op(ndo_get_phys_port_name, char *, name, size_t,
> len);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> vim +/inline +720 include/net/dsa.h
This is a macro invocation, not function declaration so I am not exactly
sure why this is a problem here? I could capitalize the macro name if
that avoids the compiler thinking this is a function declaration or move
out the static inline away from the macro invocation.
--
Florian
