From: Adrian Bunk This patch makes the needlessly global root_device_name static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- init/do_mounts.c | 2 +- init/do_mounts.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~make-init-do_mountsc-root_device_name-static init/do_mounts.c --- a/init/do_mounts.c~make-init-do_mountsc-root_device_name-static +++ a/init/do_mounts.c @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ int __initdata rd_doload; /* 1 = load RAM disk, 0 = don't load */ int root_mountflags = MS_RDONLY | MS_SILENT; -char * __initdata root_device_name; +static char * __initdata root_device_name; static char __initdata saved_root_name[64]; static int __initdata root_wait; diff -puN init/do_mounts.h~make-init-do_mountsc-root_device_name-static init/do_mounts.h --- a/init/do_mounts.h~make-init-do_mountsc-root_device_name-static +++ a/init/do_mounts.h @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ void change_floppy(char *fmt, ...); void mount_block_root(char *name, int flags); void mount_root(void); extern int root_mountflags; -extern char *root_device_name; static inline int create_dev(char *name, dev_t dev) { _