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

Dmitry Osipenko
2021-12-10T18:56:41Z

10.12.2021 21:35, Rafael J. Wysocki пишет:
> 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.
>

Alright, I'll drop this patch then because it can't be done in parallel
without creating the merge conflict. I'll try not to forget to come back
to this later on.