Re: [PATCH -next] treewide: Remove stringification from __alias macro definition

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On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 21:07, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 21:02 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 20:58, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
>

Ah, fair enough.

With this rationale added to the commit log:

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>



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