driver core: make sysfs_dev_char_kobj static

Nothing outside of drivers/base/core.c uses sysfs_dev_char_kobj, so
make it static and document what it is used for so we remember it the
next time we touch it 15 years from now.

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230331093318.82288-7-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Greg Kroah-Hartman 2023-03-31 11:33:18 +02:00
parent 575ab414c9
commit 980c05616e
2 changed files with 3 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -191,9 +191,6 @@ const char *device_get_devnode(const struct device *dev, umode_t *mode,
extern struct kset *devices_kset;
void devices_kset_move_last(struct device *dev);
/* /sys/dev/char directory */
extern struct kobject *sysfs_dev_char_kobj;
#if defined(CONFIG_MODULES) && defined(CONFIG_SYSFS)
void module_add_driver(struct module *mod, struct device_driver *drv);
void module_remove_driver(struct device_driver *drv);

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@ -2255,7 +2255,9 @@ static void fw_devlink_link_device(struct device *dev)
int (*platform_notify)(struct device *dev) = NULL;
int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device *dev) = NULL;
static struct kobject *dev_kobj;
struct kobject *sysfs_dev_char_kobj;
/* /sys/dev/char */
static struct kobject *sysfs_dev_char_kobj;
/* /sys/dev/block */
static struct kobject *sysfs_dev_block_kobj;