Re: [2.6 patch] acpi/battery.c: make 2 functions static

[Ingo Molnar]

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >From compiler-gcc.h:
> >
> > #define inline          inline          __attribute__((always_inline))
> 
> So unless I am missing something obvious then each time we say inline 
> to a function we require gcc to inline the function.
> 
> It is my impression that today we only say inline if really needed and 
> otherwise let gcc decide. So in almost all cases inlise should just be 
> nuked?

no, what we should nuke is this always_inline definition. That was 
always the intention of FORCED_INLINE, and the removal of FORCED_INLINE 
was to _remove the forcing_, not to make it unconditional.

so Adrian, if you knew about this bug all along, you might as well have 
reported it :-/

	Ingo
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