From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
"Bruce Allan" <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>,
Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com>,
Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>,
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>,
Alex Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>,
Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@intel.com>,
<e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] intel: Remove extern from function prototypes
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:16:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380061012.2736.57.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380060449.2189.6.camel@jtkirshe-mobl>
On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 15:07 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 14:09 -0700, 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.
>
> So you are able to confirm that all compilers make this assumption
> correctly? The initial reason for using extern was because not all
> compilers made the assumption or made it correctly.
You are probably thinking of global variables, where declarations
without either 'extern' or an initialiser might or might not be treated
as 'common'. On function declarations, 'extern' really is redundant.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 21:09 [PATCH 00/10 - GIT PULL] drivers: net: Next block of Remove extern from function prototypes Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 01/10] ibm/emac: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 02/10] intel: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 22:07 ` Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-24 22:07 ` Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-24 22:16 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2013-09-25 1:34 ` David Miller
2013-09-24 22:22 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-24 22:22 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 03/10] oki-semi: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 04/10] qlogic: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:09 ` [PATCH 05/10] sfc: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 06/10] stmicro: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 07/10] ti: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 08/10] toshiba: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:26 ` Geoff Levand
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 09/10] fddi/skfp: " Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:10 ` [PATCH 10/10] irda: " Joe Perches
[not found] ` <OF686C5618.58B3CEF3-ONC1257BF0.0074538C-C1257BF0.00745392@de.ibm.com>
2013-09-24 21:21 ` [RFC patch] Update Jens Osterkamp email address Joe Perches
2013-09-24 21:45 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 00/10 - GIT PULL] drivers: net: Next block of Remove extern from function prototypes David Miller
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