* checkpatch.pl: Use of extern in function prototype
@ 2014-08-18 9:39 Arun Chandran
2014-08-18 13:18 ` Joe Perches
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Arun Chandran @ 2014-08-18 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Andy Whitcroft, Joe Perches, Geoff Levand, Mark Rutland
Hi,
I have a piece of code as shown below.
#######################
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h
b/arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h
index 9a8fd84..86be4f9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ extern void cpu_cache_off(void);
extern void cpu_do_idle(void);
extern void cpu_do_switch_mm(unsigned long pgd_phys, struct mm_struct *mm);
extern void cpu_reset(unsigned long addr) __attribute__((noreturn));
+extern void cpu_soft_restart(phys_addr_t cpu_reset,
unsigned long addr) __attribute__((noreturn));
extern void cpu_do_suspend(struct cpu_suspend_ctx *ptr);
extern u64 cpu_do_resume(phys_addr_t ptr, u64 idmap_ttbr);
########################
Other lines had an "extern" in them I also added it blindly.
when the above code is given checkpatch.pl did not throw any
error/warning,; but I got this reply
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-August/279691.html
[[As the functions have external linkage by default, the extern keyword is
irrelevant in this case.]]
Does checkpatch.pl misbehave in my case?
--Arun
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2014-08-18 9:39 checkpatch.pl: Use of extern in function prototype Arun Chandran
@ 2014-08-18 13:18 ` Joe Perches
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joe Perches @ 2014-08-18 13:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Arun Chandran; +Cc: linux-kernel, Andy Whitcroft, Geoff Levand, Mark Rutland
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 15:09 +0530, Arun Chandran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a piece of code as shown below.
>
> #######################
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> b/arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> index 9a8fd84..86be4f9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ extern void cpu_cache_off(void);
> extern void cpu_do_idle(void);
> extern void cpu_do_switch_mm(unsigned long pgd_phys, struct mm_struct *mm);
> extern void cpu_reset(unsigned long addr) __attribute__((noreturn));
> +extern void cpu_soft_restart(phys_addr_t cpu_reset,
> unsigned long addr) __attribute__((noreturn));
> extern void cpu_do_suspend(struct cpu_suspend_ctx *ptr);
> extern u64 cpu_do_resume(phys_addr_t ptr, u64 idmap_ttbr);
> ########################
>
> Other lines had an "extern" in them I also added it blindly.
> when the above code is given checkpatch.pl did not throw any
> error/warning,; but I got this reply
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-August/279691.html
>
> [[As the functions have external linkage by default, the extern keyword is
> irrelevant in this case.]]
>
> Does checkpatch.pl misbehave in my case?
checkpatch's "unnecessary extern" message is somewhat controversial.
It requires the use of "--strict" on the command line.
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