To increase compiler portability there is <linux/compiler.h> which provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs. Eg: __weak for __attribute__((weak)).
I've taken up the job of cleaning these attributes all over the kernel. Currently my patches for cleanup of all files under /kernel and /block are already done and in the linux-next tree. In the following patch I've replaced all aforementioned instances under the /mm directory in the kernel source. Gideon Israel Dsouza (1): mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) mm/hugetlb.c | 3 ++- mm/nommu.c | 3 ++- mm/sparse.c | 6 ++++-- mm/util.c | 5 +++-- mm/vmalloc.c | 4 +++- 5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 1.8.5.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
