Re: XFS removal of #define STATIC static

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

> The only reason I can think of needing this is for symbol tables
> in debuggers - and trying to keep some semblance of the same
> code base between Irix and Linux. Not sure if we really have
> a debugger setup on linux where being able to turn off static
> helps to be honest, does a gdb symbol table include static
> functions?

It used to help with old kdb (which didn't know about static functions). 
But since CONFIG_KALLSYMS was implemented this is obsolete.

gdb should always know about static functions too.

-Andi