Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

[Stephen Rothwell]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:17:32 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> multi_v7_defconfig) produced this warning:
> 
> drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c:415:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> drivers/irqchip/irq-sun4i.c:39:70: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> drivers/irqchip/irq-sun4i.c:140:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c:283:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> drivers/irqchip/irq-sirfsoc.c:51:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> drivers/irqchip/irq-vt8500.c:183:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> 
> Probably introduced by commit 128ea04a9885 ("lto: Make asmlinkage __visible").
> 
> I guess that there may be more places where "asmlinkage" is used with
> "static" - I assume that they are all incorrect?
> 
> $ git grep -l 'static.*asmlinkage'
> arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
> arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c
> arch/x86/crypto/sha512_ssse3_glue.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2835.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-mmp.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-moxart.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-orion.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-sirfsoc.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-sun4i.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-vic.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-vt8500.c
> drivers/irqchip/irq-zevio.c
> drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c
> scripts/checkpatch.pl
> 
> (the last two don't matter)

Any resolution for this?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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