linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] headers_check: better search for functions in headers

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Message-ID: <4D079649.6030303@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:07:37 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] headers_check: better search for functions in headers

On 30.11.2010 17:21, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Some headers don't bother with "extern" in function prototypes,
> which results in said prototypes being unnoticed and exported
> to userland.
>
> This patch slightly improves detection of such cases by checking
> for C type names as well in the beginning of a line.

Applied to kbuild-2.6.git#misc, thanks.

Michal
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