Re: [PATCH] prepare kconfig inline optimization for allarchitectures

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Apr 27 2008 - 14:55:38 EST


On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:11:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> For example, what's wrong with having "inline" on functions in .c files if
> the author thinks they are small enough? He's likely right. Considering
> past behaviour, he's quite often more right than the compiler.

Actually looking at older code in the tree he's most likely wrong :)
Probably as bad as the compiler. But the nice part about the code is
that we can fix it easily.

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