The patch titled 8250: remove a few inlines of dubious value has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is 8250-remove-a-few-inlines-of-dubious-value.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: 8250: remove a few inlines of dubious value From: "Will Newton" <will.newton@xxxxxxxxx> Remove some inlines from various functions that are called once, are too big to inline, or are called only from slow path code. This saves around 300 bytes of code for me. Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/serial/8250.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/serial/8250.c~8250-remove-a-few-inlines-of-dubious-value drivers/serial/8250.c --- a/drivers/serial/8250.c~8250-remove-a-few-inlines-of-dubious-value +++ a/drivers/serial/8250.c @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ static unsigned int serial_icr_read(stru /* * FIFO support. */ -static inline void serial8250_clear_fifos(struct uart_8250_port *p) +static void serial8250_clear_fifos(struct uart_8250_port *p) { if (p->capabilities & UART_CAP_FIFO) { serial_outp(p, UART_FCR, UART_FCR_ENABLE_FIFO); @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ static inline void serial8250_clear_fifo * capability" bit enabled. Note that on XR16C850s, we need to * reset LCR to write to IER. */ -static inline void serial8250_set_sleep(struct uart_8250_port *p, int sleep) +static void serial8250_set_sleep(struct uart_8250_port *p, int sleep) { if (p->capabilities & UART_CAP_SLEEP) { if (p->capabilities & UART_CAP_EFR) { @@ -1428,8 +1428,7 @@ static unsigned int check_modem_status(s /* * This handles the interrupt from one port. */ -static inline void -serial8250_handle_port(struct uart_8250_port *up) +static void serial8250_handle_port(struct uart_8250_port *up) { unsigned int status; unsigned long flags; @@ -1764,7 +1763,7 @@ static void serial8250_break_ctl(struct /* * Wait for transmitter & holding register to empty */ -static inline void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_8250_port *up, int bits) +static void wait_for_xmitr(struct uart_8250_port *up, int bits) { unsigned int status, tmout = 10000; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from will.newton@xxxxxxxxx are serial-8250-tighten-test-for-using-backup-timer.patch 8250-remove-a-few-inlines-of-dubious-value.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html