On Friday 29 April 2016 14:09:23, Mark Kettenis wrote: > I think we should simply continue the current practice of not using > static in the kernel. I mean, what is the benefit of abandoning > that practice if you disable the optimizations that compiler would > make anyway?
You get a clear separation of public and non-public interfaces. You can throw away hundreds of useless prototypes for local functions. You are less likely to acumulate multiple prototypes for the same function which are later not kept in sync and cause subtle bugs. Not using static in the kernel is bad.
