Re: [PATCH] prepare kconfig inline optimization for all architectures

Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-27T18:25:44Z

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:11:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> For example, what's wrong with having "inline" on functions in .c files if
> the author thinks they are small enough? He's likely right. Considering
> past behaviour, he's quite often more right than the compiler.

Actually looking at older code in the tree he's most likely wrong :)
Probably as bad as the compiler. But the nice part about the code is
that we can fix it easily.