> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:21:59 +0200 Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>
> > Some headers don't bother with "extern" in function prototypes,
> > which results in said prototypes being unnoticed and exported
> > to userland.
> >
> > This patch slightly improves detection of such cases by checking
> > for C type names as well in the beginning of a line.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
> > CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> > CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> > CC: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
> > CC:
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> > scripts/headers_check.pl | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/headers_check.pl b/scripts/headers_check.pl
> > index 50d6cfd..e0e25a1 100644
> > --- a/scripts/headers_check.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/headers_check.pl
> > @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ sub check_include
> >
> > sub check_declarations
> > {
> > - if ($line =~m/^\s*extern\b/) {
> > + if ($line =~m/^(\s*extern|unsigned|char|short|int|long|void)\b/) {
> > printf STDERR "$filename:$lineno: " .
> > "userspace cannot call function or variable " .
>
> s/call/reference/ ?
