Re: usr/include/linux/soundcard.h warnings for 'make headers_check'

Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-21T00:26:08Z

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.

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JSR