From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
coreteam@netfilter.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/4] ipv6: silence compilation warning for non-IPV6 builds
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 20:55:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210202185528.GE3264866@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210202082909.7d8f479f@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 08:29:09AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 15:55:41 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> >
> > The W=1 compilation of allmodconfig generates the following warning:
> >
> > net/ipv6/icmp.c:448:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'icmp6_send' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> > 448 | void icmp6_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info,
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > In such configuration, the icmp6_send() is not used outside of icmp.c, so close
> > its EXPORT_SYMBOL and add "static" word to limit the scope.
> >
> > Fixes: cc7a21b6fbd9 ("ipv6: icmp6: avoid indirect call for icmpv6_send()")
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
>
> That's a little much ifdefinery, why not move the declaration from
> under the ifdef in the header instead?
We will find ourselves with exported but not used function, it will
increase symbol file, not big deal but not nice, either.
>
> If you repost please target net-next, admittedly these fixes are pretty
> "obviously correct" but they are not urgent either.
I'll do.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-02 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-02 13:55 [PATCH net 0/4] Fix W=1 compilation warnings in net/* folder Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-02 13:55 ` [PATCH net 1/4] ipv6: silence compilation warning for non-IPV6 builds Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-02 16:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-02 18:55 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2021-02-02 21:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-02 13:55 ` [PATCH net 2/4] ipv6: move udp declarations to net/udp.h Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-02 13:55 ` [PATCH net 3/4] net/core: move ipv6 gro function declarations to net/ipv6 Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-02 14:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-02-02 15:59 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-02 13:55 ` [PATCH net 4/4] netfilter: move handlers to net/ip_vs.h Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-02 14:34 ` [PATCH net 0/4] Fix W=1 compilation warnings in net/* folder Eric Dumazet
2021-02-02 14:57 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-02-02 14:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-02-02 15:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
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