On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 09:19:47AM +0200, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > On 09/06/20(Tue) 20:19, jo...@armadilloaerospace.com wrote: > > Looking for some guidance to avoid proposing any unpopular diffs. > > > > Style(9) says not to use static on file-local functions in the > > kernel, because it interferes with the debugger. They still show up > > on some functions today; is this still an issue? > > I don't know if it's an issue, but not using 'static' is still a > convention.
It is. Backtraces in drm code aren't as useful as they could be as static is extensively used.
