On 11 October 2017 at 05:33, Jiang Biao <jiang.bi...@zte.com.cn> wrote: > There are some rare cases which need external declarations in .c > files. patchew.org and checkpatch.pl will complain errors on > patches for these declarations. > > Degrade ERROR to WARN to erase the error complaints taking > checkpatch.pl in kernel as reference. > > Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.bi...@zte.com.cn> > --- > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
I'd rather not drop this to a warning for the sake of a single use case that's already in the tree (and which if you really cared about you could work around by putting the link_error() declaration in a header file I suppose, though I wouldn't bother personally.) thanks -- PMM
