The global function triggers a warning because of the missing prototype drivers/ata/pata_ns87415.c:263:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'ns87560_tf_read' [-Wmissing-prototypes] 263 | void ns87560_tf_read(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_taskfile *tf) There are no other references to this, so just make it static. Fixes: c4b5b7b6c4423 ("pata_ns87415: Initial cut at 87415/87560 IDE support") Reviewed-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru> Reviewed-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>