From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] rtlwifi: Remove extern from function prototypes Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:01:06 -0500 Message-ID: <52436B32.4040109@lwfinger.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Chaoming Li , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Joe Perches Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 09/25/2013 02:37 PM, 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 Acked-by: Larry Finger Larry