Patch "block: Change extern inline to static inline" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

block: Change extern inline to static inline

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
block-change-extern-inline-to-static-inline.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Tobias Klauser <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:16:06 +0100
Subject: block: Change extern inline to static inline

From: Tobias Klauser <[email protected]>

commit 9a05e7541c39680d28ecf91892338e074738d5fd upstream.

With compilers which follow the C99 standard (like modern versions of gcc and clang), "extern inline" does the opposite thing from older versions of gcc (emits code for an externally linkable version of the inline function).

"static inline" does the intended behavior in all cases instead.

Description taken from commit 6d91857d4826 ("staging, rtl8192e,
LLVMLinux: Change extern inline to static inline").

This also fixes the following GCC warning when building with CONFIG_PM disabled:

./include/linux/blkdev.h:1143:20: warning: no previous prototype for 'blk_set_runtime_active' [-Wmissing-prototypes]

---
 include/linux/blkdev.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ static inline int blk_pre_runtime_suspen
 static inline void blk_post_runtime_suspend(struct request_queue *q, int err) {}
 static inline void blk_pre_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q) {}
 static inline void blk_post_runtime_resume(struct request_queue *q, int err) {}
-extern inline void blk_set_runtime_active(struct request_queue *q) {}
+static inline void blk_set_runtime_active(struct request_queue *q) {}
 #endif
 
 /*

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/block-change-extern-inline-to-static-inline.patch