Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" patches(was: Re: [2.6 patch] make sched_feat_{names,open} static)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:26:04 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Actually, we could perhaps do a lot of this at the checkpatch level?
> If checkpatch sees a global symbol being added and the same patch
> does not add references to that symbol from a different file then
> whine.  Obviously this will generate false positives but that's OK.

or.. doesn't add it to a header file. That might be even more generic;
(and enforces a "all global functions need a prototype in a header
somewhere)
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