Re: [2.6 patch] acpi/battery.c: make 2 functions static

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:42:59PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:26:41PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>>   
>>> May I keep them inline?
>>>     
>>
>> The problem with such manual inlines is that we force gcc to always  
>> inline them - and history has shown that functions grow without the  
>> "inline" being removed.
>>
>>   And for static functions gcc should (at least in theory) know best 
>> when to inline them.
>>
>>   
> Right. Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
>
> As I understand, you have some automation tools for finding out these
> non-static functions, etc; are they available somewhere?

Type "make namespacecheck" after compiling the kernel.  

> Regards,
> Alex.

cu
Adrian

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