On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 08:30:28AM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> On 03/01/2014 04:57 AM, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> >On 02/28/2014 05:59 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:42:14PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> >>>This patch fixes "externs should be avoided in .c files"
> >>>in dgap.c as reported by checkpatch
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Mark Hounschell <ma...@compro.net>
> >>>---
> >>>  drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c | 8 ++++----
> >>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>>diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
> >>>index cfa33f9..b3f8c49 100644
> >>>--- a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
> >>>+++ b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
> >>>@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ static void dgap_sysfs_create(struct board_t *brd);
> >>>  static int dgap_firmware_load(struct pci_dev *pdev, int card_type);
> >>>
> >>>  /* Driver load/unload functions */
> >>>-int            dgap_init_module(void);
> >>>-void            dgap_cleanup_module(void);
> >>>+static int dgap_init_module(void);
> >>>+static void dgap_cleanup_module(void);
> >>>
> >>>  module_init(dgap_init_module);
> >>>  module_exit(dgap_cleanup_module);
> >>
> >>If you just move these module_* lines to the bottom of the file, you
> >>shouldn't need the function prototype at all, right?
> >>
> >>Care to make that change here instead?
> >>
> >>thanks,
> >
> >I will rework this one.
> >
> 
> For dgap_init_module that works fine. But since dgap_cleanup_module
> is actually called from dgap_init_module if things don't go right, I
> seem to need a function prototype for it. Should I assume this is
> wrong and dgap_cleanup_module should never actually be called
> directly?

It needs to be called directly.  Just do the one forward declaration for
dgap_cleanup_module().

regards,
dan carpenter

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