Hi Stephen, As discussed, here it is the Compiler Attributes series for linux-next. This time the original v6, based on -rc6. The changes w.r.t. v5: - Added latest Reviewed-by's and Tested-by's. The conflicts are trivial to solve, but if you want a reference, take a look at (rebased on top of next-20181005): https://github.com/ojeda/linux.git compiler-attributes-rebased Thanks! Cheers, Miguel The following changes since commit 17b57b1883c1285f3d0dc2266e8f79286a7bef38: Linux 4.19-rc6 (2018-09-30 07:15:35 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: https://github.com/ojeda/linux.git compiler-attributes for you to fetch changes up to f0604f63033d4020f019d2aaee805c1075b1077b: Compiler Attributes: ext4: remove local __nonstring definition (2018-09-30 20:14:04 +0200) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Miguel Ojeda (15): Compiler Attributes: remove unused attributes Compiler Attributes: always use the extra-underscores syntax Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded tests Compiler Attributes: homogenize __must_be_array Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded sparse (__CHECKER__) tests Compiler Attributes: add missing SPDX ID in compiler_types.h Compiler Attributes: use feature checks instead of version checks Compiler Attributes: KENTRY used twice the "used" attribute Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h Compiler Attributes: add Doc/process/programming-language.rst Compiler Attributes: add MAINTAINERS entry Compiler Attributes: add support for __nonstring (gcc >= 8) Compiler Attributes: enable -Wstringop-truncation on W=1 (gcc >= 8) Compiler Attributes: auxdisplay: panel: use __nonstring Compiler Attributes: ext4: remove local __nonstring definition Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | 45 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 5 + drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c | 7 +- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 9 - include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 5 - include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 70 +------ include/linux/compiler-intel.h | 9 - include/linux/compiler.h | 19 +- include/linux/compiler_attributes.h | 258 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/compiler_types.h | 101 ++-------- scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 + 12 files changed, 341 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/process/programming-language.rst create mode 100644 include/linux/compiler_attributes.h