Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:50:26 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/19] staging: most: Remove unnecessary externs |
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:36:35AM +0200, Andrey Shvetsov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 02:51:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Using 'extern' is not necessary for function prototypes. > > > We use them to mark dependency inversions (callbacks). > I thought about comments instead of, but I'm not sure what is worse.
I have never heard of anyone using the extern keyword to mean that before so I feel like it doesn't work as a "putting extern means the code documents itself".
regards, dan carpenter
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