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Joe Perches committed 70dc8a48357
checkpatch: warn when using extern with function prototypes in .h files Using the extern keyword on function prototypes is superfluous visual noise so suggest removing it. Using extern can cause unnecessary line wrapping at 80 columns and unnecessarily long multi-line function prototypes. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Suggested-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>