Re: PROPOSAL: Extend inline asm syntax with size spec

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:20:00PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 13:55 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, with the below patch, I get:
> > 
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > 17385183        5064780 1953892 24403855        1745f8f defconfig-build/vmlinux
> > 17385678        5064780 1953892 24404350        174617e defconfig-build/vmlinux
> > 
> > Which shows we inline more (look for asm_volatile for the actual
> > changes).
> []
> >  scripts/checkpatch.pl                              |  8 ++---
> >  scripts/genksyms/keywords.c                        |  4 +--
> >  scripts/kernel-doc                                 |  4 +--
> 
> I believe these should be excluded from the conversions.

Probably, yes. It compiled, which was all I cared about :-)

BTW, if we do that conversion, we should upgrade the checkpatch warn to
an error I suppose.