Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:49:39 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] prepare kconfig inline optimization for all architectures |
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:36:27PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >... > and a third aspect is that in the current -git kernel we have exactly > 11801 inlines in non-include files. Fighting the constant influx of them > was a futile act 3 years ago when Arjan and me created this feature for > the first time and it is futile today. It is a compiler domain problem > and we should not waste any manpower "fighting" them. Life is too short :)
It is a kernel bug that we have inline's at the wrong places.
I will "waste" my manpower on fixing these bugs.
It is a well-known fact that much code that gets added to the kernel is crap, but that shouldn't be an excuse for not fixing bugs in the kernel.
> Ingo
cu Adrian
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