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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: validate_xmit_vlan() is static
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:44:02 -0700
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On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 11:26 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> Marking this as static allows compiler to inline it.

Found by inspection or another tool?

Wasn't there some tool to look for non-static functions
that are not called externally that could/should be
converted to static?