Re: [PATCH] deinline some functions in aic7xxx drivers, save 80kof text

From: Hannes Reinecke
Date: Mon Apr 10 2006 - 06:01:19 EST


Stefan Richter wrote:
> Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>>> I am leaving it up to maintainer to decide. After all, the driver
>>> is for multiple OSes, other OS may lack mdelay().
>> The comment says about multiple milliseconds sleeps which just don't happen.
>
> Given what ah{c,d}_delay are (OS dependent wrappers) and how they are
> used (definitely not for multi-msec delays), they should just be changed
> into a #define ah{c,d}_delay(us) udelay(us) or into void inline
> ah{c,d}_delay(long us) {udelay(us);}.

I'd rather do a #define. Inlining simple functions is quite unneccessary
here.

Re multiplatform development: aic7{9,x}xx have ceased to be
multiplatfrom since the integration of scsi_transport_spi.
So I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Cheers,

Hannes
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