linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot (v2)

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Date:	Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:21:34 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>,
	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: OLPC: speed up device tree creation during boot
 (v2)

On 11/14/2010 01:50 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> It's being frowned upon btw, because it's easy to overlook (and for other reasons) - 
> please dont use statics inside functions - please put them in front of the function 
> or further up into file scope.
> 

What?  What is wrong with static variables in functions?  It really
doesn't seem to be a good idea to make them file-scope if they don't
need to be.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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