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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: usr/include/linux/soundcard.h warnings for 'make
	headers_check'
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:08:37 +0100
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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.


Takashi