On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:23:30PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch makes some needlessly global functions static.
>
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> --- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/fs/unionfs/lookup.c.old 2007-07-01 00:05:02.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1/fs/unionfs/lookup.c 2007-07-01 00:06:05.000000000 +0200
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
>
> #include "union.h"
>
> +static int realloc_dentry_private_data(struct dentry *dentry);
> +
> /* is the filename valid == !(whiteout for a file or opaque dir marker) */
I forget who said it, but someone wasn't very happy with prototypes like
that in .c files. What's the prefered way - are they ok for static symbols?