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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	geert@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:27:55 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140305102755.6e44b7e1e6eb62f01c41c018@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140304132604.5be1b967068f8e03820d2169@linux-foundation.org>

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Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:26:04 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun,  2 Mar 2014 19:09:58 +0530 Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > To increase compiler portability there is <linux/compiler.h> which
> > provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs.  Eg: __weak
> > for __attribute__((weak)).  I've replaced all instances of gcc
> > attributes with the right macro in the memory management
> > (/mm) subsystem.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/nodemask.h>
> >  #include <linux/pagemap.h>
> >  #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
> > +#include <linux/compiler.h>
> 
> It may be overdoing things a bit to explicitly include compiler.h. 
> It's hard to conceive of any .c file which doesn't already include it.

Stick to Rule 1 :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-04 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-02 13:39 [PATCH 0/1] mm: Use macros from compiler.h instead of gcc specific attribute Gideon Israel Dsouza
2014-03-02 13:39 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) Gideon Israel Dsouza
2014-03-04 21:26   ` Andrew Morton
2014-03-04 23:27     ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
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2014-03-01 16:02 [PATCH 0/1] Use macros from compiler.h instead of gcc specific attributes Gideon Israel Dsouza
2014-03-01 16:02 ` [PATCH 1/1] mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) Gideon Israel Dsouza
2014-03-01 17:38   ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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