Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

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.

Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Nak.

The "extern" makes it much easier to pick out at a glance.

Please standardise on there _being_ externs if you must do this.

It's gratuitous change anyway and not worth the churn.

David