From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Ard Biesheuvel' <ardb@kernel.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH -next] treewide: Remove stringification from __alias macro definition
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:18:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f487127202a49c09bc5db4fd95ec247@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXHe0hEDiGNMM_fg3_RYjM6B6mbKJ+1R7tsnA66ZzsiBgw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Ard Biesheuvel
> Sent: 21 October 2020 20:03
>
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 20:58, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> >
> > Like the __section macro, the __alias macro uses
> > macro # stringification to create quotes around
> > the section name used in the __attribute__.
> >
> > Remove the stringification and add quotes or a
> > stringification to the uses instead.
> >
>
> Why?
It allows the section name be made up of two concatenated strings.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-21 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-21 18:58 [PATCH -next] treewide: Remove stringification from __alias macro definition Joe Perches
2020-10-21 19:02 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-21 19:07 ` Joe Perches
2020-10-21 19:09 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-21 19:23 ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-10-21 20:23 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-10-21 21:18 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-10-21 19:20 ` Marco Elver
2020-10-22 7:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-22 16:20 ` Joe Perches
2020-11-11 7:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-11-12 9:36 ` Miguel Ojeda
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