On Tuesday 14 May 2002 22:25, Andrew Morton wrote:

inlines in headers are just a pita.  I know it gets people
all excited but I'd say: make 'em macros.

Responding to this old, old message - I strongly disagree.  Macros just suck 
too much, because of type safety and self-documentation issues.  Not only 
that, but using them extensively just lets the header inclusion order madness 
degenerate further.

Anyway, header inclusion order is a solved problem as far as I'm concerned, 
please see my patches/posts with 'early page' subject line, on lkml.  The 
winning strategy is to separate data declarations from function declarations, 
and automatically include the former in the latter.

It's true that I haven't brought these patches forward to 2.5, and for that I 
can be faulted.  There's still time though...

-- 
Daniel
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