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Date:   Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:33:07 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] treewide: Remove stringification from __alias
 macro definition

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:58:25AM -0700, Joe Perches 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.

There's a complete lack of rationale for this change.