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Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:51:42 -0800
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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static asmlinkage can make sense if a pointer to the function is taken somewhere in the same translation unit.

On February 24, 2014 7:48:41 AM PST, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> I guess that there may be more places where "asmlinkage" is used with
>> "static" - I assume that they are all incorrect?
>
>Likely they are bogus yes.
>
>One issue is still the changed ABI on i386, so one has to double check
>before removing if they have arguments.
>
>-Andi

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