linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] staging: ccree: remove inline qualifiers

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Message-ID: <CAOtvUMcYuuH3ox4RLpaT5EsYUCZRxJX7vD=g7GbWjLbf3to7Hw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:00:11 +0200
From:   Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] staging: ccree: remove inline qualifiers

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 01:58:12PM +0000, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> The ccree drivers was marking a lot of big functions in C file as
>> static inline for no good reason. Remove the inline qualifier from
>> any but the few truly single line functions.
>>
>
> The compiler is free to ignore inline hints...  It probably would make
> single line functions inline anyway.
>

Yes. I think of it more as a note to the reader: "don't add stuff to
this function. it is meant to be short and simple".


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Gilad Ben-Yossef
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