linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix __percpu annotation in asm-generic

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Message-ID: <20200324041347.GA186169@zx2c4.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:13:47 -0600
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
Cc:     Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix __percpu annotation in asm-generic

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 01:00:37AM +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> Note: it would be much much nicer to do all these type generic
>       macros with '__auto_type' (only supported in GCC 4.9 IIUC
>       and supported in sparse but it shouldn't be very hard to do)..

I'm curious to know if you know why we're not using __auto_type. Because
we're stuck on gcc 4.6, or is there a more subtle reason?

Jason