compiler_types.h: don't #define __inline

The spellings __inline and __inline__ should be reserved for uses
where one really wants to refer to the inline keyword, regardless of
whether or not the spelling "inline" has been #defined to something
else. Due to use of __inline__ in uapi headers, we can't easily get
rid of the definition of __inline__. However, almost all users of
__inline have been converted to inline, so we can get rid of that
#define.

The exception is include/acpi/platform/acintel.h. However, that header
is only included when using the intel compiler (does anybody actually
build the kernel with that?), and the ACPI_INLINE macro is only used
in the definition of utterly trivial stub functions, where I doubt a
small change of semantics (lack of __gnu_inline) changes anything.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
[Fix trivial typo in message]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
index 599c27b..ee49be6 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -150,8 +150,17 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
        __maybe_unused notrace
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * gcc provides both __inline__ and __inline as alternate spellings of
+ * the inline keyword, though the latter is undocumented. New kernel
+ * code should only use the inline spelling, but some existing code
+ * uses __inline__. Since we #define inline above, to ensure
+ * __inline__ has the same semantics, we need this #define.
+ *
+ * However, the spelling __inline is strictly reserved for referring
+ * to the bare keyword.
+ */
 #define __inline__ inline
-#define __inline   inline
 
 /*
  * Rather then using noinline to prevent stack consumption, use