[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       linux-xfs
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] xfs: reduce stack usage in xfs_bmap_btalloc()
From:       Nathan Scott <nscott () aconex ! com>
Date:       2008-04-28 23:52:33
Message-ID: 1209426754.23166.160.camel () edge ! scott ! net ! au
[Download RAW message or body]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:32 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > and
> > its a side-effect of needing to do that (all the code
> > dealing with specifics of ondisk format is shared).
> 
> But does that really need "STATIC"? Seems doubtful to me.

In userspace STATIC is defined to nothing, and the tools
(and/or libxfs) directly call into numerous functions that
are (really) static in the kernel.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]