From: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:38:00 +1000
> I must admit I prefer the other way (i.e. with the explicit extern). If > nothing else it makes it consistent with variable declarations in header > files (which need the extern) and "static inlines" ... > > Making these churn changes also will almost certainly cause unnecessary > conflicts :-( Regardless of preferences, the whole tree is a mix, and we should choose one way or the other consistently. It seems like new code in other major subsystems are using the no-extern scheme, and I'm more than happy to follow suit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
