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

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 14:39 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrch/ote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 12:15:39PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > > 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).
> 
> You need to #include compiler_types.h to get this #define?

Actually no, you need to add

#include <linux/compiler_attributes.h>

to both files and then it builds properly.

Ideally though nothing should include this file directly.

> (The twice-defined thing is a warning, not an error.  It should be fixed
> of course, but it is less important; although it may be pointing to a
> deeper problem.)
> 
> 
> Segher