Hello,
This is a resend. I had these patches run-tested
at the time of first submission. Now I have no hardware
to test them. I think that they are still fine, though.
Basically, patches deinline some functions, mainly those
which perform port I/O. They shave off ~55k on AMD64:
# x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-size linux-2.6.17.8_64*/vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
4632627 1222698 468392 6323717 607e05 linux-2.6.17.8_64/vmlinux
4571327 1223274 468392 6262993 5f90d1 linux-2.6.17.8_64aic/vmlinux
# x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-size linux-2.6.17.8_64*/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7*xx.o
text data bss dec hex filename
135543 13521 628 149692 248bc linux-2.6.17.8_64/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.o
103291 22289 560 126140 1ecbc linux-2.6.17.8_64/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o
90083 13521 628 104232 19728 linux-2.6.17.8_64aic/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.o
87231 22289 560 110080 1ae00 linux-2.6.17.8_64aic/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o
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