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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add sparse "__iomem" infrastructure to check PCI address usage
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:50:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040912175041.71fb385e.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4144E93E.5030404@pobox.com>

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:26:38 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

> Dumb gcc attribute questions:
> 
> 1) what does force do? it doesn't appear to be in gcc 3.3.3 docs.
> 
> 2) is "volatile ... __force" redundant?
> 
> 3) can we use 'malloc' attribute on kmalloc?

Jeff, this code you quoted is in the sparse ifdef block.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-13  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200409110726.i8B7QTGn009468@hera.kernel.org>
2004-09-13  0:26 ` Add sparse "__iomem" infrastructure to check PCI address usage Jeff Garzik
2004-09-13  0:50   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-09-13  2:31   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-13  2:41     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-13  3:00       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-13 14:22         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-13 14:33           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-13 18:31         ` Tonnerre
2004-09-13 18:48           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-13 18:51           ` viro

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