linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Where do we stand with the Xen patches?

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Date:	Thu, 21 May 2009 12:08:42 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
CC:	"jeremy@...p.org" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"beckyb@...nel.crashing.org" <beckyb@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"okir@...e.de" <okir@...e.de>, "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>, "gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Where do we stand with the Xen patches?

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 07:03 -0400, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 06:39 -0400, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 May 2009 11:28:53 +0100
> > Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk> wrote:
> >  
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PCI_XEN
> > > +extern int xen_range_needs_mapping(phys_addr_t paddr, size_t
> size);
> > > +#else
> > > +static inline int xen_range_needs_mapping(phys_addr_t paddr,
> size_t size) { return 0; }
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > I know Xen can do something like this but you think that this is
> > clean?
> 
> Well, defining a static inline function when a CONFIG option is
> disabled is fairly idiomatic in the kernel and in general hiding these
> sorts of things in the headers in this way is preferred to having them
> in .c files.

Although I do concede that the function definition would probably be
better placed in a xen specific header.

Ian.


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