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

Ingo Molnar
2008-03-03T08:57:36Z

* Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> 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.

what do you mean by "we force gcc to always inline them"? gcc is free to
decide whether to inline or to not inline. (and CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
got removed from 2.6.25)

Ingo