Re: [PATCH] bus: fsl-mc: add missing fsl_mc_bus_dpdbg_type declaration

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 08:39:41AM +0100, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
> Hi Ioana,
> 
> Le 07/01/2026 à 06:30, Greg Kroah-Hartman a écrit :
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 07:54:21PM +0100, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
> > > Fix following sparse warning:
> > > 
> > >    CHECK   drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c
> > > drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c:435:26: warning: symbol 'fsl_mc_bus_dpdbg_type' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > > 
> > > As it is exported it can't be static. So declare it in mc.h like
> > > all other similar objects.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: e70ba1b06c26 ("bus: fsl-mc: add the dpdbg device type")
> > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > >   include/linux/fsl/mc.h | 1 +
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/fsl/mc.h b/include/linux/fsl/mc.h
> > > index 897d6211c1635..28441a456bb48 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/fsl/mc.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/fsl/mc.h
> > > @@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ extern const struct device_type fsl_mc_bus_dpdcei_type;
> > >   extern const struct device_type fsl_mc_bus_dpaiop_type;
> > >   extern const struct device_type fsl_mc_bus_dpci_type;
> > >   extern const struct device_type fsl_mc_bus_dpdmai_type;
> > > +extern const struct device_type fsl_mc_bus_dpdbg_type;
> > 
> > As it's obviously not used anywhere, this should not be the fix, please
> > just mark it static and remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() as well.
> 
> What's your opinion here as Maintainer of this driver, what should we do ?
> 
> Greg is right that it is nowhere used, and it is the same for several other
> types, the only difference being that they have a matching
> is_fsl_mc_bus_dp..() helper that hides the type, but not all helpers are
> used, and many of them are not used outside drivers/bus/fsl-mc/ which cannot
> be built as a module:

Anything that does not need to be exported (i.e. not used by anything
else in the kernel tree), should be made static.

thanks,

greg k-h