Matthew Wilcox writes:
Why not just fix it?
diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
index 5d90307fd6e0..d955a8e3ebde 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ extern long ia64_cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer(void);
do { \
if (_cmpxchg_bugcheck_count-- <= 0) { \
void *ip; \
- extern int printk(const char *fmt, ...); \
+ int printk(const char *fmt, ...); \
ip = (void *) ia64_getreg(_IA64_REG_IP); \
printk("CMPXCHG_BUGCHECK: stuck at %p on word %p\n", ip, (v));\
break; \
I must confess I have no idea of the history of why it was `extern int` in the first place -- my fear was somehow we use cmpxchg.h from a different context. Do you have any idea? :-)
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