On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 12:00:29PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote: > What do you mean ? 'extern' prototype is pointless for function prototypes > and deprecated, no new function prototypes should be added with the 'extern' > keyword. > > checkpatch.pl tells you: "extern prototypes should be avoided in .h files"
I have a very strong preference for extern on function decls, to match the extern on variable decl. Checkpatch is just wrong here.
