Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the final tree (tip treee related)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Yinghai,

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:33:34 -0700 Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 09/14/2010 05:29 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > Do not remove the "extern" key word.
> 
> why? you got another warning?

It is normal C coding practice to mark declarations in header files with
extern.  It probably doesn't strictly matter for functions, but I have
seen a case where not doing so to a variable lead to multiple definitions
of the variable.  Consistency is also good.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

Attachment: pgp6oimU0Dk7y.pgp
Description: PGP signature


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux USB Development]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux