netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/16] treewide: prefer __section from compiler

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Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:18:30 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, yhs@...com,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] treewide: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:53 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> GCC unescapes escaped string section names while Clang does not. Because
> __section uses the `#` stringification operator for the section name, it
> doesn't need to be escaped.

Thanks a lot Nick, this takes a weight off my mind. One __attribute__
less to go.

I guess I can take the series myself, since the changes are not that
big to other parts of the kernel as long as I get Acks; and anyway I
plan to do other attributes over time.

Cheers,
Miguel