Re: [-mm patch] kernel/sched{,_fair}.c: make code static

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:30:23AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > BTW: Please don't #include C files in sched.c
> > 
> > Yeah.
> 
> In this case it's not that bad. It makes the source quite a bit cleaner 
> and avoids having to create artificial interfaces, global functions, 
> etc. between the .o's.
>...

The idiom used in the kernel for such code is "global code and compile 
the files separately". The expected inclusion for a C file into the 
kernel is through the Makefile, and everything else is surprising when 
looking through the code.

"artificial interfaces" is not a problem since these are completely 
private interfaces you can change at any time.

> 	Ingo

cu
Adrian

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