linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] list: Remove redundant 'extern' for function prototypes

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Message-Id: <20250503193542.bd707ba88b542bb797fa49b9@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 19:35:42 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] list: Remove redundant 'extern' for function
 prototypes

On Fri,  2 May 2025 15:17:42 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> The 'extern' keyword is redundant for function prototypes.
> list.h never used them and new code in general is better
> without them.
>
> ...
>
>
> -extern bool __list_valid_slowpath __list_del_entry_valid_or_report(struct list_head *entry);
> +bool __list_valid_slowpath __list_del_entry_valid_or_report(struct list_head *entry);
>  

I'll apply this because you continue to do significant work on list.h
but I don't want to spend the next 5 years buried in little "remove
externs" patches!