Re: [PATCH] fix warning in 8250.c

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 13:16:53 EST


On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:14:25PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:12:48AM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > CC drivers/serial/8250.o
> > /.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/serial/8250.c:1085: warning: 'transmit_chars' declared inline after being called
> > /.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/serial/8250.c:1085: warning: previous declaration of 'transmit_chars' was here
> >
> > Since this function is not small, inlining effect is way below noise floor.
> > Let's just remove _INLINE_.
>
> I think we want to remove _INLINE_ from both receive_chars and
> transmit_chars. Both functions aren't small, so...

While we're at it can we please kill _INLINE_? Those functions that should
be inlined can become inline, but this macro just obsfucates the serial code.
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