linux-kernel - Re: any value to "NORET

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Date:	Wed, 23 May 2007 14:07:19 +0530
From:	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
To:	"Krzysztof Halasa" <khc@...waw.pl>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

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).
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