On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:15:19AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:01:52AM -0400, Amerigo Wang wrote:
>>
>> Remove a useless 'extern' in an exported header.
>> Fix a comment headers_check.pl.
>
>These two patches has nothing in commom.
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ------
>> diff --git a/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h b/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h
>> index fa94b0e..10dc7ef 100644
>> --- a/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h
>> +++ b/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h
>> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>> #undef je32_to_cpu
>> #undef jemode_to_cpu
>>
>> -extern int target_endian;
>> +int target_endian;
>
>You now declare a global variable named target_endian each time you include this file - which is wrong.
Hmmm, the script seems wrong, not the C code. :)
And the word 'prototype' is only for functions.
How about patch below?
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/scripts/headers_check.pl b/scripts/headers_check.pl
index 56f90a4..11dc869 100644
--- a/scripts/headers_check.pl
+++ b/scripts/headers_check.pl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#
# headers_check.pl execute a number of trivial consistency checks
#
-# Usage: headers_check.pl dir [files...]
+# Usage: headers_check.pl dir arch [files...]
# dir: dir to look for included files
# arch: architecture
# files: list of files to check
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ sub check_include
sub check_prototypes
{
- if ($line =~ m/^\s*extern\b/) {
+ if ($line =~ m/^\s*extern\b.*\(.*\)/) {
printf STDERR "$filename:$lineno: extern's make no sense in userspace\n";
}
}
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