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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:36:49 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch]  kill __always_inline
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote:
>
> An issue that we already discussed at 2.6.8-rc2-mm2 times:
> 
> 2.6.9-rc1 includes __always_inline which was formerly in  -mm.
> __always_inline doesn't make any sense:
> 
> __always_inline is _exactly_ the same as __inline__, __inline and inline .
> 
> 
> The patch below removes __always_inline again:

But what happens if we later change `inline' so that it doesn't do
the `always inline' thing?

An explicit usage of __always_inline is semantically different than
boring old `inline'.