Re: thunderbolt: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "ring_free"

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On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c?id=fc14f9c1272f62c3e8d01300f52467c0d9af50f9#n268
> > 
> > I think static functions can be named whatever
> > the developer chooses.
> 
> I agree also that this implementation detail is correct in principle.
> 
> Is a renaming of such identifiers feasible so that the probability of
> other name clashes can be reduced and corresponding static source
> code analysis might become a bit easier?

Why not just make the static source code analysis aware of the problem?  
You can treat static functions differently that non-static ones.  There is 
no need to change the code.

julia
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