Re: [PATCH][2.6.8-rc1-mm1] drivers/scsi/sg.c gcc341 inlining fix

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 14 of July 2004 14:16, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 
>>gcc-3.4.1 errors out in 2.6.8-rc1-mm1 at drivers/scsi/sg.c:
>>
>>drivers/scsi/sg.c: In function `sg_ioctl':
>>drivers/scsi/sg.c:209: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to
>>'sg_jif_to_ms': function body not available drivers/scsi/sg.c:930: sorry,
>>unimplemented: called from here
>>make[2]: *** [drivers/scsi/sg.o] Error 1
>>make[1]: *** [drivers/scsi] Error 2
>>make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>>
>>sg_jif_to_ms() is marked inline but used defore its function
>>body is available. Moving it nearer the top of sg.c (together
>>with sg_ms_to_jif() for consistency) fixes the problem.
> 
> 
> While your patch is perfectly fine I think we can do better.
> I think that we may try converting sg.c to use jiffies_to_msecs()
> and msecs_to_jiffies() from <linux/time.h>.


_Look_ at the patch.  It just moves code around for no reason.  Using 
static inline prototypes should work just fine.  This patch isn't needed.

	Jeff