linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions

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Message-ID: <20090730214659.GA15780@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:46:59 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
Cc:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 15:41 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (clocksource-inline.diff)
> > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
> > 
> > Remove clocksource_read, clocksource_enable and clocksource_disable
> > inline functions. No functional change.
> > 
> 
> Your still not really explaining this one, is this suppose to be
> cleaner? Or is this related to some other part of your clean up?

It removes an entirely useless layer of obsfucation.

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