Re: [PATCH] Staging: fbtft: move externs to header file

["Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>]

Den 03.03.2015 11:19, skrev Drew Fustini:
> Move extern declartions from fbtft-core.c to fbtft header file. This resovles
> the warning from checkpatch.pl that "externs should be avoided in .c files".
>
> Signed-off-by: Drew Fustini <pdp7pdp7@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c | 5 -----
>   drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft.h      | 7 +++++++
>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c
> index ac4287f..3422faf 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-core.c
> @@ -42,11 +42,6 @@
>   
>   #include "fbtft.h"
>   
> -extern void fbtft_sysfs_init(struct fbtft_par *par);
> -extern void fbtft_sysfs_exit(struct fbtft_par *par);
> -extern void fbtft_expand_debug_value(unsigned long *debug);
> -extern int fbtft_gamma_parse_str(struct fbtft_par *par, unsigned long *curves,
> -						const char *str, int size);
>   
>   static unsigned long debug;
>   module_param(debug, ulong, 0);
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft.h b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft.h
> index 0dbf3f9..9e729e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft.h
> @@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ extern int fbtft_init_display(struct fbtft_par *par);
>   extern int fbtft_probe_common(struct fbtft_display *display,
>   	struct spi_device *sdev, struct platform_device *pdev);
>   extern int fbtft_remove_common(struct device *dev, struct fb_info *info);
> +extern void fbtft_sysfs_init(struct fbtft_par *par);
> +extern void fbtft_sysfs_exit(struct fbtft_par *par);
> +extern void fbtft_expand_debug_value(unsigned long *debug);
> +extern int fbtft_gamma_parse_str(struct fbtft_par *par, unsigned long *curves,
> +						const char *str, int size);
> +
> +
>   
>   /* fbtft-io.c */
>   extern int fbtft_write_spi(struct fbtft_par *par, void *buf, size_t len);

These functions are defined in fbtft-sysfs.c and internal to the fbtft 
module.
I think it's better to put them in an 'internal.h' file.
The fbtft.h file will eventually live in include/linux/fbtft.h or 
something like that.


Noralf.