From: Adrian Bunk This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/serial/8250.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/serial/8250.c~drivers-serial-8250c-make-a-variable-static drivers/serial/8250.c --- 25/drivers/serial/8250.c~drivers-serial-8250c-make-a-variable-static 2005-04-25 19:09:35.513309344 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/serial/8250.c 2005-04-25 19:16:17.565188168 -0700 @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ * share_irqs - whether we pass SA_SHIRQ to request_irq(). This option * is unsafe when used on edge-triggered interrupts. */ -unsigned int share_irqs = SERIAL8250_SHARE_IRQS; +static unsigned int share_irqs = SERIAL8250_SHARE_IRQS; /* * Debugging. _