Re: [PATCH 14/14] kernel/exit.c and kernel/panic.c: Remove unusedNORET_TYPE

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 19:51 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:09 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Make the functions match the prototypes in <linux/kernel.h>
> > It's defined to nothing and useless
> 
> Uhm, why not make it useful again and define it to something like:
> 
> #define NORET_TYPE __attribute__((noreturn))
> 
> except I guess that should come after the function name, not before.
> 
> Annotations that tell a particular function is not supposed to exit
> seems useful to me..

Ah, that got hidden in the header and was done in a different patch.

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