On Wed, Jun 08 2022, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The use of 'extern' in function prototypes has been disrecommended in > the kernel coding style for several years now, remove them from all vfio > related files so contributors no longer need to decide between style and > consistency. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > A patch in the same vein was proposed about a year ago, but tied to an ill > fated series and forgotten. Now that we're at the beginning of a new > development cycle, I'd like to propose kicking off the v5.20 vfio next > branch with this patch and would kindly ask anyone with pending respins or > significant conflicts to rebase on top of this patch. Thanks! > > Documentation/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.rst | 10 ++- > drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.h | 12 ++-- > drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_private.h | 6 +- > drivers/vfio/fsl-mc/vfio_fsl_mc_private.h | 2 - > drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_private.h | 21 +++--- > include/linux/vfio.h | 70 ++++++++++----------- > include/linux/vfio_pci_core.h | 65 ++++++++++---------- > 7 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>