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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/10] intel: Remove extern from function prototypes
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On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 15:07 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 14:09 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern
> > in the kernel sources. Standardize on not using extern for
> > function prototypes.
> >
> > Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern.
> > extern is assumed by the compiler. Its use is as unnecessary as
> > using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block.
>
> So you are able to confirm that all compilers make this assumption
> correctly? The initial reason for using extern was because not all
> compilers made the assumption or made it correctly.

No, I didn't bother.

Any current compilers already do make this assumption
valid as it's been part of the c spec since 1989 and
prototypes without extern already are the predominate
form in .h files for linux kernel sources.

Even in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/... there are more
prototypes without extern than with extern.





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