[RFC PATCH next-20200930] treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")

Miguel Ojeda miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 20:15:39 AEST 2020


Hi Joe,

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 12:56 AM Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
>
> So I installed the powerpc cross compiler, and
> nope, that doesn't work, it makes a mess.

Thanks a lot for reviving the script and sending the treewide cleanup!

> So it looks like the best option is to exclude these
> 2 files from conversion.

Agreed. Nevertheless, is there any reason arch/powerpc/* should not be
compiling cleanly with compiler.h? (CC'ing the rest of the PowerPC
reviewers and ML).

Cheers,
Miguel


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