From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers_check warnings
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:33:39 -0500
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:35:01AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Hello Sam, David,
> 
> /home/jaswinder/jaswinder-git/linux-2.6-tip/usr/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h:20: extern's make no sense in userspace
> 

This file is for userspace only, and it makes sense where it's used
(mtd-utils.)

In general though, this file doesn't actually depend on the kernel and
could be entirely provided from the userspace library.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/1/180