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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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

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