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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, vda@ilport.com.ua,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix warning in 8250.c
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:51:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060104155122.0bdfcffb.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060104191241.GF3119@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > While we're at it can we please kill _INLINE_?  Those functions that should
> > be inlined can become inline, but this macro just obsfucates the serial code.
> 
> No idea - I don't know about x86 nuances and why they wanted:
> 
> #if defined(__i386__) && (defined(CONFIG_M386) || defined(CONFIG_M486))
> #define _INLINE_ inline
> #else
> #define _INLINE_
> #endif
> 
> Maybe someone in the x86 world needs to comment?  Does the above even
> mean that we'll ever inline anything marked _INLINE_ ?

I suspect the reasoning behind this is lost in the mists of pre-bk time. 
I'd be inclined to just nuke it and see what happens.  Nothing, I expect.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-04 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-03  8:12 [PATCH] fix warning in 8250.c Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-04 18:14 ` Russell King
2006-01-04 18:18   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-04 19:12     ` Russell King
2006-01-04 23:51       ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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