[PATCH v3 06/11] mm/util: Deduplicate code in {kstrdup,kstrndup,kmemdup_nul}

Matthew Wilcox willy at infradead.org
Sun Jun 23 03:11:20 UTC 2024


On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 10:29:30AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 9:57 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:29:54AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
> > > +++ b/mm/internal.h
> >
> > Why are you putting __kstrndup in a header file when it's only used
> > in util.c?
> 
> I want to make it always inlined. However, it is not recommended to
> define an inline function in a .c file, right ?

I'm not aware of any such recommendation.  Better than putting it in
a .h file that everybody has to look at but nobody uses.



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