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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