linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

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Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:51:42 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

static asmlinkage can make sense if a pointer to the function is taken somewhere in the same translation unit.

On February 24, 2014 7:48:41 AM PST, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> I guess that there may be more places where "asmlinkage" is used with
>> "static" - I assume that they are all incorrect?
>
>Likely they are bogus yes.
>
>One issue is still the changed ABI on i386, so one has to double check
>before removing if they have arguments.
>
>-Andi

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