linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] genksyms: keywords: Use __restrict not

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Date:   Sat, 15 Aug 2020 14:30:32 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genksyms: keywords: Use __restrict not _restrict

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 8:06 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> It goes back to 2003 and the original keywords.gperf file, see
>
>    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=46bd1da672d66ccd8a639d3c1f8a166048cca608

Interesting, I was wondering why upstream development on genksyms had
stopped a long time ago.  That commit provides more context.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers