Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: usr/include/linux/soundcard.h warnings for 'make headers_check' | | From | Jaswinder Singh Rajput <> | | Date | Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:55:28 +0530 |
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Hello Sam,
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 01:08 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:08:22 +0530, > Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h is giving following warnings for 'make headers_check': > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1047: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1048: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1049: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1050: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1051: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1053: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1055: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1056: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1061: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1062: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1078: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1079: extern's make no sense in userspace > > > > Do we need to fix these warnings. > > No, these are declarations for OSS-lib. > It doesn't belong to kernel, but it's better to keep it for > compatibility in some way. >
Do you have some plan where extern is required like in this case.
-- JSR
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