Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: bestcomm: make gen_bd init helpers static

["Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>]

Le 11/09/2026 à 23:59, Rosen Penev a écrit :
> bcom_gen_bd_rx_init() and bcom_gen_bd_tx_init() are only called from
> the PSC wrapper functions in gen_bd.c, so make them static, drop
> their now-unneeded exports, and remove the corresponding header
> declarations.  The reset and release variants stay exported because
> sound/soc/fsl/mpc5200_dma.c calls them from a separate module.

What do you mean by "variants" ? For me a variant is something that does 
the same but slightly differently.

Maybe add that last extern user was removed by commit 7d3ee229ea51 
("powerpc: Drop MPC5200 LocalPlus bus FIFO driver")

Christophe

> 
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/dma/bestcomm/gen_bd.c       | 6 ++----
>   include/linux/fsl/bestcomm/gen_bd.h | 8 --------
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/bestcomm/gen_bd.c b/drivers/dma/bestcomm/gen_bd.c
> index 61b5746e1a97..b5093f7445cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/bestcomm/gen_bd.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/bestcomm/gen_bd.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct bcom_gen_bd_priv {
>   /* Task support code                                                        */
>   /* ======================================================================== */
>   
> -struct bcom_task *
> +static struct bcom_task *
>   bcom_gen_bd_rx_init(int queue_len, phys_addr_t fifo,
>   			int initiator, int ipr, int maxbufsize)
>   {
> @@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ bcom_gen_bd_rx_init(int queue_len, phys_addr_t fifo,
>   
>   	return tsk;
>   }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bcom_gen_bd_rx_init);
>   
>   int
>   bcom_gen_bd_rx_reset(struct bcom_task *tsk)
> @@ -166,7 +165,7 @@ bcom_gen_bd_rx_release(struct bcom_task *tsk)
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bcom_gen_bd_rx_release);
>   
>   
> -extern struct bcom_task *
> +static struct bcom_task *
>   bcom_gen_bd_tx_init(int queue_len, phys_addr_t fifo,
>   			int initiator, int ipr)
>   {
> @@ -192,7 +191,6 @@ bcom_gen_bd_tx_init(int queue_len, phys_addr_t fifo,
>   
>   	return tsk;
>   }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bcom_gen_bd_tx_init);
>   
>   int
>   bcom_gen_bd_tx_reset(struct bcom_task *tsk)
> diff --git a/include/linux/fsl/bestcomm/gen_bd.h b/include/linux/fsl/bestcomm/gen_bd.h
> index aeb312a1cd00..7253d308d77a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fsl/bestcomm/gen_bd.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fsl/bestcomm/gen_bd.h
> @@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ struct bcom_gen_bd {
>   };
>   
>   
> -extern struct bcom_task *
> -bcom_gen_bd_rx_init(int queue_len, phys_addr_t fifo,
> -			int initiator, int ipr, int maxbufsize);
> -
>   extern int
>   bcom_gen_bd_rx_reset(struct bcom_task *tsk);
>   
> @@ -27,10 +23,6 @@ extern void
>   bcom_gen_bd_rx_release(struct bcom_task *tsk);
>   
>   
> -extern struct bcom_task *
> -bcom_gen_bd_tx_init(int queue_len, phys_addr_t fifo,
> -			int initiator, int ipr);
> -
>   extern int
>   bcom_gen_bd_tx_reset(struct bcom_task *tsk);
>