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Message-ID: <657119d71970e33d599b3fe9e596e8f133449d85.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:05:38 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH next-20200930] treewide: Convert macro and uses of
 __section(foo) to __section("foo")

On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 12:15 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Hi Joe,

Buenas Miguel.

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 12:56 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > So I installed the powerpc cross compiler, and
> > nope, that doesn't work, it makes a mess.
> 
> Thanks a lot for reviving the script and sending the treewide cleanup!

No charge...

I think the end result is cleaner and more obvious.

> > So it looks like the best option is to exclude these
> > 2 files from conversion.
> 
> Agreed. Nevertheless, is there any reason arch/powerpc/* should not be
> compiling cleanly with compiler.h? (CC'ing the rest of the PowerPC
> reviewers and ML).

That's not a can of worms I care to open.
Perhaps the powerpc folk can do some fishing.

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