On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 07:18:20AM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote: > This patch fixes the following sparse warning:
Avoid having "This patch" or "This commit" in the commit message. It is tautologically useless. Also, do $ git grep 'This patch' Documentation/process for more details. > arch/x86/kernel/crash.c:59:15: > warning: symbol 'crash_zero_bytes' was not declared. Should it be static? > > In addition, crash_zero_bytes is used when CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is > set, so make it only available under CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. Otherwise, > if CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is not set, the following warning will appear: > > arch/x86/kernel/crash.c:59:22: > warning: ‘crash_zero_bytes’ defined but not used [-Wunused-variable] That happens only when you make it static, so please state that in the commit message. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.