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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	linux arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prepare kconfig inline optimization for all architectures
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:49:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080427194939.GE2252@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080427193627.GA32654@elte.hu>

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:36:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>...
> and a third aspect is that in the current -git kernel we have exactly 
> 11801 inlines in non-include files. Fighting the constant influx of them 
> was a futile act 3 years ago when Arjan and me created this feature for 
> the first time and it is futile today. It is a compiler domain problem 
> and we should not waste any manpower "fighting" them. Life is too short :)

It is a kernel bug that we have inline's at the wrong places.

I will "waste" my manpower on fixing these bugs.

It is a well-known fact that much code that gets added to the kernel is 
crap, but that shouldn't be an excuse for not fixing bugs in the kernel.

> 	Ingo

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-27 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-27 10:51 Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-27 11:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-27 11:56   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-27 12:36     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 12:49       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 17:06   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 17:22     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-27 17:32       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 17:47         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-27 18:00           ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-27 18:09             ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-27 18:14               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-27 18:24                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 18:32                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-27 19:36                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 19:49                     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2008-04-27 23:26                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-27 23:36                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 23:41                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 18:31                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-27 18:36                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-27 18:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 18:25             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-27 18:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 18:41             ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-27 18:57               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-27 20:51           ` Mike Galbraith
2008-04-27 17:57         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-27 17:40       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-27 17:59         ` Adrian Bunk

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