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Message-ID: <20081021120720.GG12825@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:07:20 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [announce] new tree: "fix all build warnings, on all configs"

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:17:16PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> 
> > >   *	acpi_pm_disable_gpes - Disable the GPEs.
> > >   */
> > > -static int acpi_pm_disable_gpes(void)
> > > +static inline int acpi_pm_disable_gpes(void)
> > 
> > Just to satisfy my curiosity, what compiler warning does marking 
> > functions inline fix?
> 
> the commit log below explains the situation. The warning exposed a maze 
> of #ifdefs in drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c. It's not the warning we need to 
> "fix" but that maze, obviously.

Thanks. That makes sense, 

I also agree with you that the better alternative would be 
to just always force SUSPEND together with ACPI.

I suspect the code delta wouldn't be very large compared to the rest
of the ACPI code.

-Andi

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