From: Joe Perches Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:23:58 +0000 (-0700) Subject: checkpatch: warn when using extern with function prototypes in .h files X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~52^2~114 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70dc8a48357ce630d8a76887a9a36f0d34c8caf2;p=pandora-kernel.git checkpatch: warn when using extern with function prototypes in .h files Using the extern keyword on function prototypes is superfluous visual noise so suggest removing it. Using extern can cause unnecessary line wrapping at 80 columns and unnecessarily long multi-line function prototypes. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed