linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH next-20200930] treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to _

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Date:   Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:46:54 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH next-20200930] treewide: Convert macro and uses of
 __section(foo) to __section("foo")

On Mon, 2020-10-05 at 11:36 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> I don't think there's anything wrong with manually including it and adding `-I
> <path>` (capital i) if needed.

All of this is secondary to the actual change to use
quoted __section("foo") rather than __section(foo)

I'd rather get that done first and then figure out if
additional changes could be done later.