On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:15:23 +0800
'Baoquan He' <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02/26/20 at 10:01am, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:26:34 +1100
> > "Alastair D'Silva" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2020 7:15 PM
> > > > To: Alastair D'Silva <[email protected]>
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> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/27] ocxl: Remove unnecessary externs
> > > > 
> > > > On 02/21/20 at 02:26pm, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> > > > > From: Alastair D'Silva <[email protected]>
> > > > >
> > > > > Function declarations don't need externs, remove the existing ones so
> > > > > they are consistent with newer code
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <[email protected]>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/pnv-ocxl.h | 32 
> > > > > ++++++++++++++---------------
> > > > >  include/misc/ocxl.h                 |  6 +++---
> > > > >  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pnv-ocxl.h
> > > > > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pnv-ocxl.h
> > > > > index 0b2a6707e555..b23c99bc0c84 100644
> > > > > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pnv-ocxl.h
> > > > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pnv-ocxl.h
> > > > > @@ -9,29 +9,27 @@
> > > > >  #define PNV_OCXL_TL_BITS_PER_RATE       4
> > > > >  #define PNV_OCXL_TL_RATE_BUF_SIZE
> > > > ((PNV_OCXL_TL_MAX_TEMPLATE+1) * PNV_OCXL_TL_BITS_PER_RATE / 8)
> > > > >
> > > > > -extern int pnv_ocxl_get_actag(struct pci_dev *dev, u16 *base, u16
> > > > *enabled,
> > > > > -                     u16 *supported);
> > > > 
> > > > It works w or w/o extern when declare functions. Searching 'extern'
> > > > under include can find so many functions with 'extern' adding. Do we 
> > > > have
> > > a
> > > > explicit standard if we should add or remove 'exter' in function
> > > declaration?
> > > > 
> > > > I have no objection to this patch, just want to make clear so that I can
> > > handle
> > > > it w/o confusion.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Baoquan
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > For the OpenCAPI driver, we have settled on not having 'extern' on
> > > functions.
> > > 
> > > I don't think I've seen a standard that supports or refutes this, but it
> > > does not value add.
> > > 
> > 
> > FWIW this is a warning condition for checkpatch:
> > 
> > $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict -f include/misc/ocxl.h
> 
> Good to know, thanks.
> 
> I didn't know checkpatch.pl can run on header file directly. Tried to
> check patch with '--strict -f', the below info doesn't appear. But it

Hmm... -f is to check a source file, not a patch... What did you try
exactly ?

> does give out below information when run on header file.
> 
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > CHECK: extern prototypes should be avoided in .h files
> > #176: FILE: include/misc/ocxl.h:176:
> > +extern int ocxl_afu_irq_alloc(struct ocxl_context *ctx, int *irq_id);
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> 
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