The function declaration in ext4.h is already marked extern. The function definition should not have the tag. This quiets the sparse noise: warning: function 'ext4_init_inode_table' with external linkage has definition Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c index fd96ea1..ef9bdd6 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -1235,7 +1235,7 @@ unsigned long ext4_count_dirs(struct super_block * sb) * inode allocation from the current group, so we take alloc_sem lock, to * block ext4_claim_inode until we are finished. */ -extern int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group, +int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group, int barrier) { struct ext4_group_info *grp = ext4_get_group_info(sb, group); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html