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.
next prev parent 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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