Re: [PATCH 2.6.25.9] Make sure that include/asm-powerpc/spinlock.h does not trigger compilation warnings

["Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 28, 2008, at 1:51 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>
>> When compiling kernel modules for ppc that include <linux/spinlock.h>, gcc
>> prints a warning message every time it encounters a function declaration
>> where
>> the inline keyword appears after the return type. The patch below makes
>> sure
>> that the order of the inline keyword and the return type is as gcc expects
>> it.
>> Additionally, the __inline__ keyword is replaced by inline, as checkpatch
>> expects.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
>
> what version of gcc and what config are you building for?

The gcc details are as follows (openSUSE 10.3 PPC running on a PS3):

$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: powerpc64-suse-linux
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr
--with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada
--enable-checking=release
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 --enable-ssp
--disable-libssp --disable-libgcj --with-slibdir=/lib
--with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch
--program-suffix=-4.2 --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
--without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=default32 --enable-secureplt
--with-long-double-128 --host=powerpc64-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)

Bart.