From 9d1afb3b0fe4e4e60fa0e09afc046322fac85fd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:12:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 149537 b: refs/heads/master c:
 67b7ebe091cd92fd69f732da3170720d79c4e632 h: refs/heads/master i:   149535:
 a56a6f90f4cceb6cfdba67925f887cce07801de1 v: v3

---
 [refs]                         |  2 +-
 trunk/scripts/headers_check.pl | 12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 86abb62f903c..da76a7f85118 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7211b8b9028854eee0d03ee6231440b7fb492521
+refs/heads/master: 67b7ebe091cd92fd69f732da3170720d79c4e632
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/headers_check.pl b/trunk/scripts/headers_check.pl
index 4414c43857ad..db1dd7a549f2 100644
--- a/trunk/scripts/headers_check.pl
+++ b/trunk/scripts/headers_check.pl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # headers_check.pl execute a number of trivial consistency checks
 #
-# Usage: headers_check.pl dir [files...]
+# Usage: headers_check.pl dir arch [files...]
 # dir:   dir to look for included files
 # arch:  architecture
 # files: list of files to check
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 		&check_include();
 		&check_asm_types();
 		&check_sizetypes();
-		&check_prototypes();
+		&check_declarations();
 		# Dropped for now. Too much noise &check_config();
 	}
 	close FH;
@@ -61,10 +61,12 @@ sub check_include
 	}
 }
 
-sub check_prototypes
+sub check_declarations
 {
-	if ($line =~ m/^\s*extern\b/) {
-		printf STDERR "$filename:$lineno: extern's make no sense in userspace\n";
+	if ($line =~m/^\s*extern\b/) {
+		printf STDERR "$filename:$lineno: " .
+		              "userspace cannot call function or variable " .
+		              "defined in the kernel\n";
 	}
 }