[PATCH -next] clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Make symbol 'arch_timer_rate1' static

[Marc Zyngier]

[+ Jisheng Zhang]

On Tue, 11 May 2021 07:46:23 +0100,
Zou Wei <zou_wei at huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> The sparse tool complains as follows:
> 
> drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c:67:5: warning:
>  symbol 'arch_timer_rate1' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 
> This symbol is not used outside of arm_arch_timer.c, so marks it
> static.

It is worse than that. This variable is not used *at all*, and has
been added by e2bf384d4329 ("clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add
__ro_after_init and __init"). Not sure how we missed that.

Please post a patch removing this variable altogether.

Thanks,

	M.

> 
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci at huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei at huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> index fe1a826..800aaa9 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_arch_timer.c
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct arch_timer {
>  #define to_arch_timer(e) container_of(e, struct arch_timer, evt)
>  
>  static u32 arch_timer_rate __ro_after_init;
> -u32 arch_timer_rate1 __ro_after_init;
> +static u32 arch_timer_rate1 __ro_after_init;
>  static int arch_timer_ppi[ARCH_TIMER_MAX_TIMER_PPI] __ro_after_init;
>  
>  static const char *arch_timer_ppi_names[ARCH_TIMER_MAX_TIMER_PPI] = {
> -- 
> 2.6.2
> 
> 

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