From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] can: Remove extern from function prototypes Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:02:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20130924.100209.1219862004963547693.davem@davemloft.net> References: <5570169a078375fa8662adeb2a7f24c1ae718bfb.1379974101.git.joe@perches.com> <52414128.8030706@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: joe@perches.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wg@grandegger.com, linux-can@vger.kernel.org To: mkl@pengutronix.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <52414128.8030706@pengutronix.de> Sender: linux-can-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Marc Kleine-Budde Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:37:12 +0200 > On 09/24/2013 12:11 AM, Joe Perches wrote: >> There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern >> in the kernel sources. Standardize on not using extern for >> function prototypes. >> >> Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern. >> extern is assumed by the compiler. Its use is as unnecessary as >> using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block. >> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches > > Thx, added to linux-can-next. The patch will be included in the next > pull request to David. Marc, I'm trying to just quickly apply these all into my tree directly. Thanks.