[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib: remove "extern" keyword for functions from header files

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Jan 28 11:11:13 CET 2016


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 07:05:52PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-01-25 10:01, Ferruh Yigit:
> > Remove "extern" keywords in header files, the ones for function
> > prototypes
> 
> I've seen a lot of other extern keywords. Why not removing all?
> 
Remaining one are Linux drivers in KNI, they are kind of internal headers, I doubt on touching them.
Should I remove them all?
Also there are more usage in "drivers" folder, I am not sure touching them too, what do you comment?

> > -extern int rte_eth_dev_configure(uint8_t port_id,
> > -				 uint16_t nb_rx_queue,
> > -				 uint16_t nb_tx_queue,
> > -				 const struct rte_eth_conf *eth_conf);
> > +int rte_eth_dev_configure(uint8_t port_id, uint16_t nb_rx_queue,
> > +			  uint16_t nb_tx_queue,
> > +			  const struct rte_eth_conf *eth_conf);
> 
> The indent is weird.
> Why not follow the guideline with 2 tabs?
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-2.2/contributing/coding_style.html#c-indentation

Intentionally kept them as original, to scope the patch just to remove a keyword.
Do you want me fix the syntax wherever I touch for this patch?

Thanks,
ferruh


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