Re: [-mm patch] init/main.c: dummy mark_rodata_ro() should be static

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Nov 23 2005 - 23:23:42 EST


On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:54:40PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:46:51PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > > Every inline dummy function should be static.
> >
> > Please explain why it matters in this case.
>
> We don't need an additional global copy of the function.

it's an empty body, surely the compiler will compile it away ?

Dave

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