uninline check_signature()
This is a rather bizarre thing to have inlined in io.h. Stick it in lib/
instead.
While we're there, despaghetti it a bit, and fix its off-by-one behaviour when
passed a zero length.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/io.h b/include/linux/io.h
index 8423dd3..e3b2dda 100644
--- a/include/linux/io.h
+++ b/include/linux/io.h
@@ -63,32 +63,7 @@
void __iomem * devm_ioremap_nocache(struct device *dev, unsigned long offset,
unsigned long size);
void devm_iounmap(struct device *dev, void __iomem *addr);
-
-/**
- * check_signature - find BIOS signatures
- * @io_addr: mmio address to check
- * @signature: signature block
- * @length: length of signature
- *
- * Perform a signature comparison with the mmio address io_addr. This
- * address should have been obtained by ioremap.
- * Returns 1 on a match.
- */
-
-static inline int check_signature(const volatile void __iomem *io_addr,
- const unsigned char *signature, int length)
-{
- int retval = 0;
- do {
- if (readb(io_addr) != *signature)
- goto out;
- io_addr++;
- signature++;
- length--;
- } while (length);
- retval = 1;
-out:
- return retval;
-}
+int check_signature(const volatile void __iomem *io_addr,
+ const unsigned char *signature, int length);
#endif /* _LINUX_IO_H */