linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:04:52 -0500
From:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1:
>>>> ...
>>>> git-ieee1394.patch
>>>> ...
>>>> git trees
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> This patch contains the following cleanups:
>>> - "extern inline" -> "static inline"
>> I guess that's fine, I do like how extern inline will never generate code 
> 
> Exactly the opposite will be true when gcc will switch to the C99 
> semantics...
> 
> Besides this, "static inline" forces inlining in the kernel due to
>   #define inline          inline          __attribute__((always_inline))

In that case I have no reservations at all.

thanks,
Kristian

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