On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 10:08 AM Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le mar., janv. 4 2022 at 14:16:01 +0000, Jonathan Cameron
> >
> > Paul, over to you for reasoning. If we are going to change this
> > now is the time before they get significant use and we end up having
> > to add static to lots of places.
>
> I have an idea on how to tackle automatic dead code removal on exported
> dev_pm_ops symbols. It means introducing a separate
> EXPORTED_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(), so the current DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS()
> macro could keep the "static". Unless you still think it's a bad idea,
> then in this case we can remove it.
I would prefer removing the implicit 'static' if only for consistency reasons,
which to me outweighs the simplicity aspect in this case.
Arnd
