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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Oct 22 2020 - 03:33:35 EST


On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 11:58:25AM -0700, Joe Perches 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.

There's a complete lack of rationale for this change.