linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31 -mm merge plans

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Message-ID: <4A309557.8040508@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:25:43 +0800
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.31 -mm merge plans

Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:15:05AM +0800, Amerigo Wang wrote:
>   
>> Hi, Al.
>>
>> Just as what I said in the description of that patch, one only has  
>> extern functions that are _only_ used in another as function pointers.
>>     
>
> Er...  So what?  Amount of functions made static is not, per se, a
> useful metrics of anything.
>   
Not only about static, but also because they are used via function pointers.

Logically, it is better for these functions used via pointers to be kept in
the same file with the struct which holds these function pointers.

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