Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932259AbVLDPgz (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:36:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932258AbVLDPgz (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:36:55 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33729 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932255AbVLDPgx (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:36:53 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel References: <20051203162755.GA31405@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133630556.22170.26.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051203230520.GJ25722@merlin.emma.line.org> <43923DD9.8020301@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051204121209.GC15577@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133699555.5188.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204132813.GA4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133703338.5188.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204142551.GB4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133707855.5188.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204150804.GA17846@merlin.emma.line.org> X-Yow: Yow! I'm out of work...I could go into shock absorbers...or SCUBA GEAR!! Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:36:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20051204150804.GA17846@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:08:04 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 19 Matthias Andree writes: > Yes. "extern type foo; static type foo;" is way stupid, but 10% of the > blame can be shifted on the GCC guys for being much too tolerant. You should rather blame the C standard. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/