Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers_check warnings

[Jaswinder Singh Rajput]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What Sam means is that the warnings about externs not making sense in userspace
> are indicators that there may be other external declarations (without "extern")
> in those files, and that you should fix those at the same time (i.e. either
> don't fix any of them, or fix all of them (in the same file)). If you don't
> fix them at the same time, people tend to forget about them.
>
> So the warnings are just considered canaries in our coal mine. Killing only the
> canaries doesn't help.
>

If this is the case, then drop extern patches and let maintainers of
those files should handle them then they will not forget and never
repeat this mistake again.

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JSR
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