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Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:23:08 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] treewide: Remove stringification from __alias macro definition

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:07 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 21:02 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 20:58, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > > Like the __section macro, the __alias macro uses
> > > macro # stringification to create quotes around
> > > the section name used in the __attribute__.
> > >
> > > Remove the stringification and add quotes or a
> > > stringification to the uses instead.
> > >
> >
> > Why?
>
> Using quotes in __section caused/causes differences
> between clang and gcc.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/29/2187
>
> Using common styles for details like this is good.

Luckily, there's no difference/issue here with alias as there exist
with section: https://godbolt.org/z/eWxc7P
So it's just a stylistic cleanup, not a bugfix.
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

$ grep -rn __attribute__ | grep alias

didn't turn up any other cases that look like they don't use strings.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers