[PATCH] staging: r8723au: Fix build warnings

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Apr 9 16:37:35 UTC 2014


On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:05:20AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> The kbuild test robot reports the following:
> 
> tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head:   75ff24fa52f0cc512ceee4c377632b91a3a80811
> commit: 9176303c404741b2f96796466437f2badf6e289b staging: r8723au: Turn on build of new driver
> date:   4 days ago
> config: make ARCH=avr32 allyesconfig
> 
> All warnings:
> 
> >> drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/rtw_mlme.h:620: warning: 'rtw_set_roaming' declared inline after being called
>    drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/rtw_mlme.h:620: warning: previous declaration of 'rtw_set_roaming' was here
> >> drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/rtw_mlme.h:621: warning: 'rtw_to_roaming' declared inline after being called
>    drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/rtw_mlme.h:621: warning: previous declaration of 'rtw_to_roaming' was here
> --
>    drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c: In function 'Hal_EEValueCheck':
> >> drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_hal_init.c:2277: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
> 
> The first two warnings are fixed by making the two prototypes be "inline" to match
> the actual routine. The third warning comes from testing that a u8 quantity is positive.

If the functions are inline, why are they referenced in a .h file at
all?



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