Commit d1d85780 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: make extern in .h prototypes quieter

The use of extern in .h files is a bit contentious.

Make the warning be emitted only when --strict is used on the command
line.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 58f09e00
......@@ -3975,7 +3975,7 @@ sub string_find_replace {
# check for new externs in .h files.
if ($realfile =~ /\.h$/ &&
$line =~ /^\+\s*(extern\s+)$Type\s*$Ident\s*\(/s) {
if (WARN("AVOID_EXTERNS",
if (CHK("AVOID_EXTERNS",
"extern prototypes should be avoided in .h files\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
$fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ s/(.*)\bextern\b\s*(.*)/$1$2/;
......
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