From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput Subject: Re: usr/include/linux/soundcard.h warnings for 'make headers_check' Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:55:28 +0530 Message-ID: <1232497528.3123.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1232465902.3088.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Sam Ravnborg , Ingo Molnar , LKML List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hello Sam, On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 01:08 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:08:22 +0530, > Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h is giving following warnings for 'make headers_check': > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1047: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1048: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1049: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1050: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1051: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1053: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1055: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1056: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1061: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1062: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1078: extern's make no sense in userspace > > usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1079: extern's make no sense in userspace > > > > Do we need to fix these warnings. > > No, these are declarations for OSS-lib. > It doesn't belong to kernel, but it's better to keep it for > compatibility in some way. > Do you have some plan where extern is required like in this case. -- JSR