On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:36:35AM +0200, Andrey Shvetsov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 02:51:22PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Using 'extern' is not necessary for function prototypes. > > > We use them to mark dependency inversions (callbacks). > I thought about comments instead of, but I'm not sure what is worse.
I have never heard of anyone using the extern keyword to mean that before so I feel like it doesn't work as a "putting extern means the code documents itself". regards, dan carpenter -- 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/
