This patch adds a static keyword to variable portal_rotor to suppress the sparse warning of static declaration Signed-off-by: Mohammad Jamal <md.jamalmohiuddin(a)gmail.com&gt; --- drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/lib-ptl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/lib-ptl.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/lib-ptl.c index 19ed696..6652036 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/lib-ptl.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/lib-ptl.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ #include "../../include/linux/lnet/lib-lnet.h" /* NB: add /proc interfaces in upcoming patches */ -int portal_rotor = LNET_PTL_ROTOR_HASH_RT; +static int portal_rotor = LNET_PTL_ROTOR_HASH_RT; module_param(portal_rotor, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(portal_rotor, "redirect PUTs to different cpu-partitions"); -- 1.7.9.5