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Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:38:50 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	mcarlson@...adcom.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ethtool to mii advertisment conversion helpers

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:21:32 -0800

> 
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 17:16 -0800, Matt Carlson wrote:
>> > Finally, do these need to be inline?
>> 
>> I don't have a strong preference here either.  Phy code tends to be
>> slower, so there isn't really a strong performance argument.  The
>> implementations don't seem to be so large to argue against it though.
>> Would you prefer they not be inlined?
>> 
> 
> Since we are defining these in .h file, they need to be inline, right?
> Otherwise multiple source files including the same .h file will have
> conflict.

Yes, if you keep them in the header you have to keep them inline.

Ben, by suggesting to not inline them, is implicitly saying to put
them out in a seperate *.c file somewhere, perhaps net/core/ethtool.c
or similar.  With appropriate EXPORT_SYMBOL() added.

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