Re: [PATCH 5/8] lib: bitmap: remove the 'extern' keyword from function declarations

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Sat Jan 30 2021 - 15:28:01 EST


On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 4:59 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 02:46:21PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The 'extern' keyword doesn't have any benefits in header files. Remove it.
>
> > +int __bitmap_equal(const unsigned long *bitmap1,
> > + const unsigned long *bitmap2, unsigned int nbits);
>
> Why not
>
> int __bitmap_equal(const unsigned long *bitmap1, const unsigned long *bitmap2,
> unsigned int nbits);
>
> and so on?
>
> It's even in 80 limit.
>

I feel like this is purely a matter of taste. No rules define exactly
how the lines should be broken. I prefer the longer part to be below,
it just looks better to my eyes.

Bart