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

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:04:23 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>
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

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))

> and that gcc warns on missing prototype for these case is more of a gcc 
> bug.  Not a big deal though, it's more worthwhile to track down real 
> missing prototype offenders.
> 
> >- fw-topology.c: make struct fw_node_create static
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>
> 
> 

cu
Adrian

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