* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now, the C people figured that distinction was useless and allowedFully agreed, and my other point was that it's also consistent with
sloppiness. But I still think there's merrit to that. And as
mentioned earlier, it is consistent with variable declarations.
the other existing externs were used *in the same header file*
already.
I.e. there's nothing more sloppy than mixing different styles within
the same header. Checkpatch needs to be fixed or ignored here.