Re: [PATCH] iio: trigger: Staticise stub functions

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 7/18/20 6:25 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:24:56 +0300
> Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Make sure that the trigger function stubs are all static inline. Otherwise
> > we'll get linker errors due to multiple definitions of the same function.
> >
> > Fixes f8c6f4e9a40d4: ("iio: trigger: Staticise stub functions")
> > Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>
> I'm curious on what the actual build error is?  Static functions should
> result in independent implementations in each C file that includes
> them. Inline is normally considered a hint.  Hence what am I missing?

It's a bad commit message, my fault. This should have been

Make sure that the trigger function stubs are all static inline. 
Otherwise we might see compiler warnings about declared but unused 
functions.