linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] x86 kprobes_64.c: make 3 functions static

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Message-ID: <20071109070609.3ff46629@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:06:09 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	prasanna@...ibm.com, ananth@...ibm.com,
	anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] x86 kprobes_64.c: make 3 functions static

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 07:03:26 +0100
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:

> This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
> - kprobe_handler()
> - trampoline_probe_handler()
> - post_kprobe_handler()
> 

while I appreciate your cleanups, I would like to ask you to be a bit
careful with the x86/ ones; some of these are for now deliberate to
make unification between the 32 and 64 ones possible.. eg we're working
on getting the more cosmetic (and in this context, removing a static is
more or less cosmetic) changes away so that "diff" shows us the *real*
differences between the 32 and 64 bit versions... adding back in the
static is the opposite direction ;)

So.. if you find ones that are real for both 32 and 64 bit, by all
means, but otherwise be a bit careful..

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven
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