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

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 09:33 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.

I'll eventually post V2.
I'm waiting to see if there are more comments.

As I wrote in reply to Ard:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1cecfbfc853b2e71a96ab58661037c28a2f9280e.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Using quotes in __section caused/causes differences
between clang and gcc.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/29/2187

Using common styles for details like this is good.