Hello, This is a resend. I had these patches run-tested at the time of first submission. Now I have no hardware to test them. I think that they are still fine, though. Basically, patches deinline some functions, mainly those which perform port I/O. They shave off ~55k on AMD64: # x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-size linux-2.6.17.8_64*/vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 4632627 1222698 468392 6323717 607e05 linux-2.6.17.8_64/vmlinux 4571327 1223274 468392 6262993 5f90d1 linux-2.6.17.8_64aic/vmlinux # x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-size linux-2.6.17.8_64*/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7*xx.o text data bss dec hex filename 135543 13521 628 149692 248bc linux-2.6.17.8_64/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.o 103291 22289 560 126140 1ecbc linux-2.6.17.8_64/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o 90083 13521 628 104232 19728 linux-2.6.17.8_64aic/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.o 87231 22289 560 110080 1ae00 linux-2.6.17.8_64aic/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
