Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell Vostro V131

From: MichaÅ KÄpieÅ
Date: Mon Feb 22 2016 - 04:31:22 EST


> > > Pali's point about documenting the hardcoded values and eliminating the code
> > > duplication with a function (inline) is a good one.
> >
> > I plan to only put a comment next to 0x51534554 as 0x10000 is apparently
> > just something pulled out of a hat (as the link provided in the commit
> > message proves) and input[3] should be self-explanatory due to the name
> > of the variable whose value is put into it.
>
> Maybe you can add documentation which we got from Dell on some ML about
> this SMI call. Similarly what I added in dell-laptop.c...

Sure, I can do that.

> > By the way, is there any kernel-wide or subsystem-wide policy for
> > marking a function inline? I mean, this is hardly time-critical code,
> > so is your suggestion to make it inline just a preference or am I
> > unaware of some rule?
>
> IIRC recent versions of gcc ignores "inline" keyword and inline
> functions as needed when doing optimizations.

This was my hunch as well, but I couldn't find any proof immediately,
hence the question.

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Best regards,
MichaÅ KÄpieÅ