Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] net: gianfar: fix old-style declaration

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:11:45 -0700

On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 21:02 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 06/16/2016 04:52 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Modern C standards expect the '__inline__' keyword to come before the return
> > type in a declaration, and we get a warning for this with "make W=1":
[]
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
[]
> > @@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ static inline void gfar_tx_checksum(struct sk_buff *skb, struct txfcb *fcb,
> >  	fcb->flags = flags;
> >  }
> > 
> > -void inline gfar_tx_vlan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct txfcb *fcb)
> > +static inline void gfar_tx_vlan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct txfcb *fcb)
>     You don't mention making it *static*. Though the function can be *static* 
> indeed... the current policy also forbids *inline* in the *.c files, leaving 
> the judgement to gcc.

While mostly true, (__always_inline vs inline vs nothing),
there are many inline uses in this file that could be removed
in a separate patch rather than removing just this one.