Re: [PATCH] fix __percpu annotation in asm-generic

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 01:00:37AM +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> Note: it would be much much nicer to do all these type generic
>       macros with '__auto_type' (only supported in GCC 4.9 IIUC
>       and supported in sparse but it shouldn't be very hard to do)..

I'm curious to know if you know why we're not using __auto_type. Because
we're stuck on gcc 4.6, or is there a more subtle reason?

Jason