Re: [-mm patch] make drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi:fan_mutex static

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-29T04:10:10Z

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Forward declarations of static functions (if required) and actual
> variables (like fan_mutex) belong into the C file, not the header.

Very well. I will fix the mess for 2.6.23, or, time permitting, 2.6.22.

> > Maybe I should just break the driver into multiple files in a subdirectory?
> > That would certainly make it *much* cleaner...
>
> But even more in this case, you will not want to have actual variables
> or prototypes of static functions in the header file.

I would not have to, in that case. The driver would be much easier to
write, and I will need to break it in two for an alsa module anyway, might
as well break it in one subdriver per file.

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Henrique Holschuh