Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] thunderbolt: Add vendor's specific operations of NVM

[kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>]

Hi Szuying,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
[also build test WARNING on v6.0-rc3 next-20220901]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch#_base_tree_information]

url:    https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Szuying-Chen/thunderbolt-add-vendor-s-NVM-formats/20220902-174246
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 42e66b1cc3a070671001f8a1e933a80818a192bf
config: loongarch-randconfig-s051-20220901 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220904/202209040723.T3GBSVUx-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: loongarch64-linux-gcc (GCC) 12.1.0
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: v0.6.4-39-gce1a6720-dirty
        # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/02a1339d2c5a67367909bfcb11e307d3cfa44f74
        git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux
        git fetch --no-tags linux-review Szuying-Chen/thunderbolt-add-vendor-s-NVM-formats/20220902-174246
        git checkout 02a1339d2c5a67367909bfcb11e307d3cfa44f74
        # save the config file
        mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
        COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-12.1.0 make.cross C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=loongarch SHELL=/bin/bash drivers/

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Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>

sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
   drivers/thunderbolt/nvm.c: note: in included file:
>> drivers/thunderbolt/tb.h:743:20: sparse: sparse: marked inline, but without a definition
>> drivers/thunderbolt/tb.h:743:20: sparse: sparse: marked inline, but without a definition

vim +743 drivers/thunderbolt/tb.h

   742	
 > 743	inline int nvm_read(struct tb_switch *sw, unsigned int address,
   744				   void *buf, size_t size);
   745	struct tb_nvm *tb_nvm_alloc(struct device *dev);
   746	int tb_nvm_add_active(struct tb_nvm *nvm, size_t size, nvmem_reg_read_t reg_read);
   747	int tb_nvm_write_buf(struct tb_nvm *nvm, unsigned int offset, void *val,
   748			     size_t bytes);
   749	int tb_nvm_add_non_active(struct tb_nvm *nvm, size_t size,
   750				  nvmem_reg_write_t reg_write);
   751	void tb_nvm_free(struct tb_nvm *nvm);
   752	void tb_nvm_exit(void);
   753	

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