Re: [PATCH] x86, acpi: LLVMLinux: Remove nested functions from Thinkpad ACPI

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, dl9pf@xxxxxx wrote:

> From: Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The only real change is passing in event_mask to the formerly nested functions.
> Otherwise it's just moving around function and macro code.
> 
> This is the only place in the Linux kernel where nested functions are still in
> use. Nested functions aren't part of the C standards, and complicate the
> generated code. Although the Linux Kernel has never set out to be entirely C
> standard compliant, it is increasingly compliant to the standard which is
> supported by other compilers such as Clang. The LLVMLinux project is working on
> being able to compile the Linux kernel with Clang. The use of nested functions
> blocks this effort.
> 

So this patch is only as a courtesy to clang and you're not complaining 
about things like __builtin() functions, typeof, or a ? : b conditional 
operators because clang happens to support them?
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