linux-kernel - Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused_

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Message-Id: <20070501230858.b29564ef.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 23:08:58 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused__

On Tue, 1 May 2007 22:53:52 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:28:18PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > > +#define __attribute_unused__		__attribute__((unused))
> > 
> > Suggest __unused which is shorter and looks compiler-neutral.
> > 
> 
> So you would also suggest renaming __attribute_used__ and all 48 of its 
> uses to __used?

Or __needed or __unneeded.  None of them mean much to me and I'd be forever
going back to the definition to work out what was intended.

We're still in search of a name, IMO.  But once we have it, yeah, we should
update all present users.  We can do that over time: retain the old and new
definitions for a while.

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