Re: [PATCH][2.6.8-rc1-mm1] drivers/scsi/sg.c gcc341 inlining fix

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

FYI 'inlining fix' was just merged as part of viro's sparse cleanups

I still would like somebody to comment on idea of converting sg.c
to use standard inlines from <linux/time.h> ...

On Wednesday 14 of July 2004 18:54, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:44:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > >On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:52:46AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >>...
> > >>If gcc is insisting that prototypes for inlines no longer work, we have
> > >>a lot of code churn on our hands ;-(  Grumble.
> > >
> > >I've counted at about 30 files with such problems in a full i386
> > >2.6.7-mm7 compile.
> > >
> > >I've already sent patches for some of them (e.g. the dmascc.c one), and
> > >they are usually pretty straightforward.
> >
> > This is not a problem with the kernel.
> >
> > All these files have been functioning just fine for years, with properly
> > prototyped static inline functions.
>
> Add -Winline to the compile flags, and name one gcc version that is able
> to inline them all in sg.c ...
>
> > Though there is a the claim that '#define inline always_inline' is
> > leading to all this breakage.
>
> gcc 3.4 is just complaining louder that it can't inline something it was
> told to inline.
>
> > 	Jeff
>
> cu
> Adrian

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