linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel: use the gnu89 standard explicitly

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:16:45 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
	Andrew Pinski <pinskia@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: use the gnu89 standard explicitly

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 05:23:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So now we have a *third* semantic of "extern inline", and one that
> seems to be entirely inappropriate to *ever* be used in a header file
> due to duplicate symbol problems. What a mess.
> 
> Maybe we should just specify "gnu89" to avoid these kinds of insane
> semantic changes.

Umm... does anything except alpha really use extern inline?  The instances
outside of arch/alpha seem to be mostly cargo-culting; lib/mpi might be
another one, but other than that...
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