Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:44:22 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - create common header for init/main.c called init functions
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:11:09PM -0400, Arthur Othieno wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:42:10AM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> > init/main.c calls a number of functions externally
> > but declaring them locally. This patch creates a
> > new header (linux/kernel_init.h) and moves all
> > the declarations into it.
> 
> These functions are only referenced in init/main.c, and rightfully so.
> In the end, this doesn't change anything much, other than maintainance
> overhead for the new include/linux/kernel_init.h
>...

I disagree.

Without having looked deeper at the details of this specific patch, it's 
generally a good cleanup to move function declarations to header files.

This avoids the nasty class of runtime errors we sometimes get when 
someone changes the prototype of a function but forgets to update all 
the prototypes floating around in .c files.

cu
Adrian

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