On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 06:42 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Timur, > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 07:25:45 -0600 Timur Tabi <ti...@kernel.org> wrote: > > On 1/14/20 12:31 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > +/** > > > + * ev_byte_channel_send - send characters to a byte stream > > > + * @handle: byte stream handle > > > + * @count: (input) num of chars to send, (output) num chars sent > > > + * @bp: pointer to chars to send > > > + * > > > + * Returns 0 for success, or an error code. > > > + */ > > > +static unsigned int ev_byte_channel_send(unsigned int handle, > > > + unsigned int *count, const char *bp) > > > > Well, now you've moved this into the .c file and it is no longer > > available to other callers. Anything wrong with keeping it in the .h > > file? > > There are currently no other callers - are there likely to be in the > future? Even if there are, is it time critical enough that it needs to > be inlined everywhere?
It's not performance critical and there aren't likely to be other users -- just a matter of what's cleaner. FWIW I'd rather see the original patch, that keeps the raw asm hcall stuff as simple wrappers in one place. -Scott