drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:106:16: sparse: sparse: symbol 'fbcon_registered_fb' was not declared. Should it be static?

From: kernel test robot
Date: Sat May 28 2022 - 00:32:55 EST


tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: a9f94826e4bb6402e67f3eb849dee0811f1de6da
commit: efc3acbc105af79bce2ccf97a6159255b7cf6b38 fbcon: Maintain a private array of fb_info
date: 7 weeks ago
config: ia64-randconfig-s031-20220524 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220528/202205281235.rdumodzg-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: ia64-linux-gcc (GCC) 11.3.0
reproduce:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
# apt-get install sparse
# sparse version: v0.6.4-14-g5a0004b5-dirty
# https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=efc3acbc105af79bce2ccf97a6159255b7cf6b38
git remote add linus https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
git fetch --no-tags linus master
git checkout efc3acbc105af79bce2ccf97a6159255b7cf6b38
# save the config file
mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-11.3.0 make.cross C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=ia64 SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/video/fbdev/core/

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Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>


sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
>> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:106:16: sparse: sparse: symbol 'fbcon_registered_fb' was not declared. Should it be static?
>> drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:107:5: sparse: sparse: symbol 'fbcon_num_registered_fb' was not declared. Should it be static?

vim +/fbcon_registered_fb +106 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c

105
> 106 struct fb_info *fbcon_registered_fb[FB_MAX];
> 107 int fbcon_num_registered_fb;
108

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