linux-kernel - Re: any value to "NORET

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Date:	Wed, 23 May 2007 09:09:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
cc:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

On Wed, 23 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:

> On 5/23/07, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> wrote:
> > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> writes:
> >
> > > that may be but, as i suggested earlier, that would get into
> > > guessing what those developers were thinking, and i just didn't
> > > want to go there.
> >
> > No guessing, I just checked it (though a second check wouldn't do
> > any harm).
> >
> > > the simple version of the patch is now in andrew's tree, and
> > > i'll worry about the harder stuff next time.
> >
> > The "next time" would be much harder as there would be no key for
> > searching for these functions.
>
> Krzysztof's absolutely right ... we don't want to lose the
> NORET_TYPE annotations on all these functions before we switch them
> to ATTRIB_NORET. And yes, _all_ of these NORET_TYPE's do want to be
> ATTRIB_NORET (except for those that are double-annotated, for those
> we can just get rid of the NORET_TYPE macro).

ok, i'll go back and take another look at this.

rday
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