On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 06:41:20PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 01:27 +0000, Cong Wang wrote:

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 at 17:58 GMT, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

You dropped the author from the cc list.
Always reply to the author.

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Function prototypes don't need to be declared
extern in .h files.  It's assumed by the compiler
and is as unnecessary as using auto is when
declaring automatic/local variables in a block.

Since we all know this, why bother it?

If everyone knew this, new ones wouldn't be added.
But a lot are.

Couldn't checkpatch take care of these?

Greetings,

  Hannes