[PATCH v2 08/10] TWL IRQ: Fix fucntion declaration warnings
Samuel Ortiz
sameo at linux.intel.com
Mon Sep 27 10:46:11 EDT 2010
Hi Manjunath,
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 07:19:33PM +0530, G, Manjunath Kondaiah wrote:
> > > No, we don't want to export those. Try defining them as extern from
> > > twl*-irq.c.
> >
> > Having extern in .c file will generate checkpatch warning as:
> > WARNING: externs should be avoided in .c files
>
> As an alternate, how about having twl-core.h in drivers/mfd and defining them
> as extern so that these API's will be available only to files under drivers/mfd?
>
That would be better, yes. Even though exporting those definititions through
linux/i2c/twl.h is harmless.
Cheers,
Samuel.
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