Re: [PATCH] headers_check.pl: disallow extern's

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 02 January 2009 19:09:57 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > in addition... what business does the kernel have to provide function
> > prototypes to userspace, other than the system call prototypes?
>
> This is the point I raised in my initial comment: we should warn about
> all of them if possible. Note that the syscalls.h file is not even
> exported. I can't think of a single case where a function protoype
> should be exported from the kernel to user space.

right, and unless people someone can come up with some magic perl code to 
detect function prototypes, i suggest we start adding extern keywords ...
-mike

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