Re: [PATCH v4 07/25] reboot: Remove extern annotation from function prototypes

Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-12-10T18:35:13Z

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 7:16 PM Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 10.12.2021 21:09, Rafael J. Wysocki пишет:
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 7:02 PM Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> There is no need to annotate function prototypes with 'extern', it makes
> >> code less readable. Remove unnecessary annotations from <reboot.h>.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>
> >
> > I'm not sure that this is really useful.
> >
> > Personally, I tend to respect the existing conventions like this.
> >
> > Surely, this change is not required for the rest of the series to work.
>
> Problem that such things start to spread all over the kernel with a
> copy-paste approach if there is nobody to clean up the code.
>
> This is not a common convention and sometimes it's getting corrected [1].
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/linus/6d7434931

In separate patches outside of series adding new features, if one is
so inclined.