linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

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Message-ID: <20070430000925.GK11115@waste.org>
Date:	Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:09:25 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 04:37:01PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:21:54 -0500 Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:11:01PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:11:36AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > >  > > I'm all ears for additional regexps, bug reports or other suggestions.
> > >  > 
> > >  > Neat.
> > >  > 
> > >  > Does it check for:
> > >  > 
> > >  > functions marked extern?
> 
> 	data marked extern?

It's perfectly reasonable to have a data extern declaration in a header file.

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