Should new code have forward declarations of static functions or not?

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* Should new code have forward declarations of static functions or not?
@ 2018-05-18 16:44 Simon Que
  2018-05-18 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Simon Que @ 2018-05-18 16:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Is it preferred to have forward declarations of static funcs, or to omit
them altogether?

I know that different files in kernel code follow one style or the other.
Just wondering if there's a preferred style for new code.

Simon

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* Re: Should new code have forward declarations of static functions or not?
  2018-05-18 16:44 Should new code have forward declarations of static functions or not? Simon Que
@ 2018-05-18 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2018-05-18 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Simon Que; +Cc: linux-kernel

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:44:31PM -0400, Simon Que wrote:
> Is it preferred to have forward declarations of static funcs, or to omit
> them altogether?

There are cases where you need them.  But in general if you do not
absolutely need them try to avoid them.

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