RE: [PATCH -next] treewide: Remove stringification from __alias macro definition

From: David Laight
Date: Wed Oct 21 2020 - 17:18:44 EST


From: Ard Biesheuvel
> Sent: 21 October 2020 20:03
>
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 20:58, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Like the __section macro, the __alias macro uses
> > macro # stringification to create quotes around
> > the section name used in the __attribute__.
> >
> > Remove the stringification and add quotes or a
> > stringification to the uses instead.
> >
>
> Why?

It allows the section name be made up of two concatenated strings.

David

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