Please discard "checkpatch: warn when using extern with function prototypes in .h files"

I noticed that a patch got committed to checkpatch to complain about function prototypes prefixed by "extern". Please discard/revert this patch: commit 7cd0f806622836e386ef18ad1950a9a729803019 Author: Joe Perches Date: Wed Aug 28 10:16:00 2013 +1000

Please discard checkpatch: warn when using extern with function prototypes in .h files

I noticed that a patch got committed to checkpatch to complain about function prototypes prefixed by extern. Please discard/revert this patch: commit 7cd0f806622836e386ef18ad1950a9a729803019 Author: Joe Perches j...@perches.com Date: Wed Aug 28 10:16:00 2013 +1000