Re: [STACK] weird code in some isdn drivers

[Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:36:33PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Karsten, Kai,
> 
> while I agree that this is a measurement bug, it's not exacly fun to
> look at the code in question.  Can you please find a solution for
> hscx_irq.c?

HiSax and I4L is in bugfix only mode, since it will replaced
by other drivers. So I do not want waste time for soon obsolate code.

> 
> Either transform it into a header and uninline some of the longer
> functions or make the functions global and add the necessary header
> and Makefile-line.  In any case, I don't like to see something like
> #include "hscx_irq.c"
> 

Yes I agree that it looks ugly and make not much more sense with today
CPUs and compilers. In the beginning of the development (on 386/486) and
with early GCC (inline was often broken) it did and reduced some
ping times so far I remember. (~1997)

> stackframes for call path too long (268435490):
>     size  function
>        0  IsdnCardState->irq_func
> 268435466  teles3_interrupt
>       24  hscx_empty_fifo
>        0  read_fifo
>        0  insb
> 
> Jörn
> 
> -- 
> People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
> that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
> -- unknown

-- 
Karsten Keil
SuSE Labs
ISDN development