Re: [PATCH 8/9] ata: Add support for the Tegra124 SATA controller

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:13:20PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:10:23AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > > sata_writel() and sata_read() static inlines don't seem to add any value.
> > > 
> > > Can they be removed?
> > 
> > Such functions are quite idiomatic in drivers, and serve to simplify all
> > the call-sites by removing the need to write out the addition of the
> > base address everywhere.
> 
> I think it obfuscates more than helps.  If you absoluately have to
> keep it, please at least name it so that it's clear that it's
> something specific to this driver.

Please also drop inline.  It isn't a difficult optimization to perform
for the compiler.

-- 
tejun
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