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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1210022347500.12717@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2012 23:49:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
cc:	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Pavel Pisa <pisa@....felk.cvut.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/10] compiler{,-gcc4}.h: Introduce __flatten function
 attribute

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Josh Triplett wrote:

> That issue doesn't relate to __flatten, though; it only relates to
> __weak.  Since __flatten (and __compiletime_object_size) will work fine
> on 4.1.0 and 4.1.1, don't exclude them just because the definition for
> __weak elsewhere in the file excludes them.  That just makes it harder
> for anyone who might want to work on the issue with __weak.
> 

Nack to the patch since there are no users of it; there's no need to 
define every possible gcc function attribute.  If anything actually needs 
to use __attribute__((flatten)), then it can introduce it.
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