On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:24:19PM -0800, ashish mittal wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting the following error with checkpatch.pl > > ERROR: externs should be avoided in .c files > #78: FILE: block/vxhs.c:28: > +QemuUUID qemu_uuid __attribute__ ((weak)); > > Is there any way to get around this, or does it mean that I would have > to add a vxhs.h just for this one entry? >
I remain skeptical on the use of the qemu_uuid as a way to select the TLS cert. But that aside, and looking at it strictly from a checkpatch.pl point of view, I think one could make a case that if there is no header file, the error could be ignored.
