Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] ipv6: fix checkpatch errors of "foo*" and "foo * bar"

[Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:40:12AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:22:01 -0700
> 
> > On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 12:07 +0800, Wangyufen wrote:
> > []
> >> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
> > []
> >> @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static __inline__ __be32 addr_bit_set(const void *token, int fn_bit)
> >>  	       addr[fn_bit >> 5];
> >>  }
> > 
> > Perhaps all the __inline__ uses could be changed to inline too.
> 
> Or rather, deleted completely, this is a *.c file after all.

Smart-arsing:

Removing inline keyword makes the function visible to tracing if
it didn't get inlined. I think this is a nice side-effect because debug
kernels are often compiled with less aggressive inlining options
(readable asm kconfig option).