From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>,
Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com>,
Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>,
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
Alex Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>,
Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] intel: Remove extern from function prototypes
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:07:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380060449.2189.6.camel@jtkirshe-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ccc921af41a862fe969809228f029035f851502.1380056108.git.joe@perches.com>
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On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 14:09 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern
> in the kernel sources. Standardize on not using extern for
> function prototypes.
>
> Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern.
> extern is assumed by the compiler. Its use is as unnecessary as
> using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block.
So you are able to confirm that all compilers make this assumption
correctly? The initial reason for using extern was because not all
compilers made the assumption or made it correctly.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 21:09 [PATCH 00/10 - GIT PULL] drivers: net: Next block of " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 01/10] ibm/emac: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 02/10] intel: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 22:07 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2013-09-24 22:16 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-09-25 1:34 ` David Miller
2013-09-24 22:22 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 03/10] oki-semi: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 04/10] qlogic: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 05/10] sfc: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 06/10] stmicro: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 07/10] ti: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 08/10] toshiba: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:26 ` Geoff Levand
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 09/10] fddi/skfp: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 10/10] irda: " Joe Perches
[not found] ` <OF686C5618.58B3CEF3-ONC1257BF0.0074538C-C1257BF0.00745392@de.ibm.com>
2013-09-24 21:21 ` [RFC patch] Update Jens Osterkamp email address Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:45 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 00/10 - GIT PULL] drivers: net: Next block of Remove extern from function prototypes David Miller
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