netdev - Re: [2.6 patch] net/irda/: proper prototypes

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Message-Id: <20070102.003953.21925510.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:39:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bunk@...sta.de
Cc:	samuel@...tiz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] net/irda/: proper prototypes

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:46:26 +0100

> This patch adds proper prototypes for some functions in
> include/net/irda/irda.h
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
 ...
> +struct net_device;
> +struct packet_type;
> +
> +void irda_proc_register(void);
> +void irda_proc_unregister(void);
> +
> +int irda_sysctl_register(void);
> +void irda_sysctl_unregister(void);
> +
> +int irsock_init(void);
> +void irsock_cleanup(void);
> +
> +int irlap_driver_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
> +		     struct packet_type *ptype, struct net_device *orig_dev);

Remind me why you remove the "extern" from "external" function
declarations all the time?

I don't like it, even if it's "correct", because it is inconsistent
with what we do in the entire rest of the networking code.
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