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From: n l <walking.to.remember@gmail.com>
To: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@denise.shiny.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why the interrupt handler should be marked "static" for it is never called directly from another file.
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:03:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b5347dc0508110203345af854@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508111049010.5385@denise.shiny.it>

I see, if a function in a module is not marked by static ,it can be
accessed by any other function in kernel, while , using a static can
avoid it .

thanks a lot !!


2005/8/11, Giuliano Pochini <pochini@denise.shiny.it>:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, n l wrote:
> 
> > could you explain its reason for using static ?
> 
> Anything which is never referenced from another file should be
> static in order to keep namespace pollution low.
> 
> 
> --
> Giuliano.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-11  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-11  8:33 why the interrupt handler should be marked "static" for it is never called directly from another file n l
2005-08-11  8:52 ` Giuliano Pochini
2005-08-11  9:03   ` n l [this message]
2005-08-11 15:41     ` Zachary Amsden

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