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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:52:48 -0600
From: Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7@gmail.com>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: fbtft: move externs to header file
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 04:33:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> but now it adds 6 additional warning in checkpatch --strict
> "extern prototypes should be avoided in .h files"

Thanks, Sudip.  I did not realize that was an option for checkpatch.
I see now that there are additional warnings as you mentioned:
 
CHECK: extern prototypes should be avoided in .h files
CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
CHECK: Please don't use multiple blank lines

Drew