Re: [PATCH 1/6] driver core: device.h: remove extern from function prototypes

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Mar 24 2023 - 09:35:43 EST


On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 1:27 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The kernel coding style does not require 'extern' in function prototypes
> in .h files, so remove them from include/linux/device.h as they are not
> needed.
>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>

for this one and the rest of the series.

> ---
> include/linux/device.h | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
> index 3b23772d3bbb..472dd24d4823 100644
> --- a/include/linux/device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -1088,8 +1088,7 @@ void device_link_remove(void *consumer, struct device *supplier);
> void device_links_supplier_sync_state_pause(void);
> void device_links_supplier_sync_state_resume(void);
>
> -extern __printf(3, 4)
> -int dev_err_probe(const struct device *dev, int err, const char *fmt, ...);
> +__printf(3, 4) int dev_err_probe(const struct device *dev, int err, const char *fmt, ...);
>
> /* Create alias, so I can be autoloaded. */
> #define MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(major,minor) \
> --
> 2.40.0
>