Re: [2.6 patch] acpi/battery.c: make 2 functions static

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sat Mar 01 2008 - 13:46:49 EST


On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:42:59PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:26:41PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>>
>>> May I keep them inline?
>>>
>>
>> The problem with such manual inlines is that we force gcc to always
>> inline them - and history has shown that functions grow without the
>> "inline" being removed.
>>
>> And for static functions gcc should (at least in theory) know best
>> when to inline them.
>>
>>
> Right. Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx>
>
> As I understand, you have some automation tools for finding out these
> non-static functions, etc; are they available somewhere?

Type "make namespacecheck" after compiling the kernel.

> Regards,
> Alex.

cu
Adrian

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