linux-kernel - [PATCH] remove comment about sparse not supporting __has

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Message-Id: <20200824232511.16485-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Aug 2020 01:25:11 +0200
From:   Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] remove comment about sparse not supporting __has_attribute

Sparse supports __has_attribute() since 2018-08-31, so the comment
is not true anymore but more importantly is rather confusing.

So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
---
 include/linux/compiler_attributes.h | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
index 6122efdad6ad..af7a58c19e20 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@
  * __has_attribute is supported on gcc >= 5, clang >= 2.9 and icc >= 17.
  * In the meantime, to support 4.6 <= gcc < 5, we implement __has_attribute
  * by hand.
- *
- * sparse does not support __has_attribute (yet) and defines __GNUC_MINOR__
- * depending on the compiler used to build it; however, these attributes have
- * no semantic effects for sparse, so it does not matter. Also note that,
- * in order to avoid sparse's warnings, even the unsupported ones must be
- * defined to 0.
  */
 #ifndef __has_attribute
 # define __has_attribute(x) __GCC4_has_attribute_##x
-- 
2.28.0