linux-kernel - Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers

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Message-ID: <3f9a31f40901140858w3a024023h94ebb1a6e087d03e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:28:19 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL -tip] fixed few make headers_check warnings

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> What Sam means is that the warnings about externs not making sense in userspace
> are indicators that there may be other external declarations (without "extern")
> in those files, and that you should fix those at the same time (i.e. either
> don't fix any of them, or fix all of them (in the same file)). If you don't
> fix them at the same time, people tend to forget about them.
>
> So the warnings are just considered canaries in our coal mine. Killing only the
> canaries doesn't help.
>

If this is the case, then drop extern patches and let maintainers of
those files should handle them then they will not forget and never
repeat this mistake again.

--
JSR
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