On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 10:34:32AM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 9 July 2007 08:11:22 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >
> > If CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL is not configured, ext2_clear_inode() will be empty
> > function. However, there still will be call and immediate return which can be
> > avoided.
> > [...]
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
> > static void ext2_clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
> > {
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
> > struct ext2_inode_info *ei = EXT2_I(inode);
> >
> > if (ei->i_acl && ei->i_acl != EXT2_ACL_NOT_CACHED) {
> > @@ -197,8 +197,10 @@ static void ext2_clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
> > posix_acl_release(ei->i_default_acl);
> > ei->i_default_acl = EXT2_ACL_NOT_CACHED;
> > }
> > -#endif
> > }
> > +#else
> > +#define ext2_clear_inode NULL
> > +#endif
>
> Are you sure your patch makes a difference? Does the resulting binary
> change at all?
Yes. Note that ext2_clear_inode() is referenced from ext2_sops, so even
empty, it leaves traces in resulting kernel.
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