On Wed, 2017-10-04 at 11:00 +0200, Srinivasan Shanmugam wrote: > This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl warning. > WARNING: externs should be avoided in .c files Nope. > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c [] > @@ -17,12 +17,6 @@ > #include <drv_types.h> > #include <rtw_debug.h> > > -extern unsigned char RTW_WPA_OUI[]; > -extern unsigned char WMM_OUI[]; > -extern unsigned char WPS_OUI[]; > -extern unsigned char P2P_OUI[]; > -extern unsigned char WFD_OUT[]; > - > void init_mlme_ap_info(struct adapter *padapter) > { > struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv = &(padapter->mlmepriv); Please compile any files modified by your proposed changes _before_ you submit them. For instance: $ git grep -w RTW_WPA_OUI drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c:extern unsigned char RTW_WPA_OUI[]; drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ap.c: if (!memcmp(RTW_WPA_OUI, oui, 4)) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel