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

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 12:15 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Hi Joe,

Buenas Miguel.

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 12:56 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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!

No charge...

I think the end result is cleaner and more obvious.

> > 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).

That's not a can of worms I care to open.
Perhaps the powerpc folk can do some fishing.