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authorGravatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> 2018-12-05 13:16:24 -0500
committerGravatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> 2018-12-05 13:23:38 -0500
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parentmedia: pixfmt-meta-d4xx.rst: Add a license to it (diff)
parentMerge tag 'media/v4.20-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mc... (diff)
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Merge commit '0072a0c14d5b7cb72c611d396f143f5dcd73ebe2' into patchwork
Merge from Upstream after the latest media fixes branch, because we need one patch that it is there. * commit '0072a0c14d5b7cb72c611d396f143f5dcd73ebe2': (1108 commits) ide: Change to use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro ide: pmac: add of_node_put() drivers/tty: add missing of_node_put() drivers/sbus/char: add of_node_put() sbus: char: add of_node_put() Linux 4.20-rc5 PCI: Fix incorrect value returned from pcie_get_speed_cap() MAINTAINERS: Update linux-mips mailing list address ocfs2: fix potential use after free mm/khugepaged: fix the xas_create_range() error path mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() do not crash on Compound mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() without freezing new_page mm/khugepaged: minor reorderings in collapse_shmem() mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() remember to clear holes mm/khugepaged: fix crashes due to misaccounted holes mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() stop if punched or truncated mm/huge_memory: fix lockdep complaint on 32-bit i_size_read() mm/huge_memory: splitting set mapping+index before unfreeze mm/huge_memory: rename freeze_page() to unmap_page() initramfs: clean old path before creating a hardlink ...
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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
index 6b28c1b7310c..f8c400ba1929 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
@@ -4,22 +4,26 @@
/*
* The attributes in this file are unconditionally defined and they directly
- * map to compiler attribute(s) -- except those that are optional.
+ * map to compiler attribute(s), unless one of the compilers does not support
+ * the attribute. In that case, __has_attribute is used to check for support
+ * and the reason is stated in its comment ("Optional: ...").
*
* Any other "attributes" (i.e. those that depend on a configuration option,
* on a compiler, on an architecture, on plugins, on other attributes...)
* should be defined elsewhere (e.g. compiler_types.h or compiler-*.h).
+ * The intention is to keep this file as simple as possible, as well as
+ * compiler- and version-agnostic (e.g. avoiding GCC_VERSION checks).
*
* This file is meant to be sorted (by actual attribute name,
* not by #define identifier). Use the __attribute__((__name__)) syntax
* (i.e. with underscores) to avoid future collisions with other macros.
- * If an attribute is optional, state the reason in the comment.
+ * Provide links to the documentation of each supported compiler, if it exists.
*/
/*
- * To check for optional attributes, we use __has_attribute, which is supported
- * on gcc >= 5, clang >= 2.9 and icc >= 17. In the meantime, to support
- * 4.6 <= gcc < 5, we implement __has_attribute by hand.
+ * __has_attribute is supported on gcc >= 5, clang >= 2.9 and icc >= 17.
+ * In the meantime, to support 4.6 <= gcc < 5, we implement __has_attribute
+ * by hand.
*
* sparse does not support __has_attribute (yet) and defines __GNUC_MINOR__
* depending on the compiler used to build it; however, these attributes have