Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:49:23 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH - diffstat only] include/net: Remove extern from function prototypes | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:38:00 +1000
> I must admit I prefer the other way (i.e. with the explicit extern). If > nothing else it makes it consistent with variable declarations in header > files (which need the extern) and "static inlines" ... > > Making these churn changes also will almost certainly cause unnecessary > conflicts :-(
Regardless of preferences, the whole tree is a mix, and we should choose one way or the other consistently.
It seems like new code in other major subsystems are using the no-extern scheme, and I'm more than happy to follow suit.
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