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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, He Ying <heying24@huawei.com>,
	frederic@kernel.org, paulmck@kernel.org, clg@kaod.org,
	qais.yousef@arm.com, johnny.chenyi@huawei.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] smp: kernel/panic.c - silence warnings
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:23:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFH0sDpUIUmdpNkQ@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9691919b-d014-7433-3345-812c9b19a677@csgroup.eu>

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:00:29PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> What do you mean ? 'extern' prototype is pointless for function prototypes
> and deprecated, no new function prototypes should be added with the 'extern'
> keyword.
> 
> checkpatch.pl tells you: "extern prototypes should be avoided in .h files"

I have a very strong preference for extern on function decls, to match
the extern on variable decl.

Checkpatch is just wrong here.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-17 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-16  8:41 He Ying
2021-03-17  9:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2021-03-17 11:00   ` Christophe Leroy
2021-03-17 12:23     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-03-17 17:17       ` Christophe Leroy
2021-03-17 17:37         ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-17 20:09           ` Ingo Molnar
2021-03-18  2:56             ` heying (H)
2021-03-18  6:11               ` Christophe Leroy
2021-03-18  6:04             ` Christophe Leroy
2021-03-18  5:53           ` Christophe Leroy
2021-03-19  1:39             ` heying (H)
2021-03-19  6:58               ` Christophe Leroy

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