linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] prepare kconfig inline optimization for all architectures

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Message-ID: <20080427194939.GE2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:49:39 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prepare kconfig inline optimization for all
	architectures

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:36:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>...
> and a third aspect is that in the current -git kernel we have exactly 
> 11801 inlines in non-include files. Fighting the constant influx of them 
> was a futile act 3 years ago when Arjan and me created this feature for 
> the first time and it is futile today. It is a compiler domain problem 
> and we should not waste any manpower "fighting" them. Life is too short :)

It is a kernel bug that we have inline's at the wrong places.

I will "waste" my manpower on fixing these bugs.

It is a well-known fact that much code that gets added to the kernel is 
crap, but that shouldn't be an excuse for not fixing bugs in the kernel.

> 	Ingo

cu
Adrian

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