On Sun, 20 May 2007, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > i can do that as long as there's no way that those changes can
> > (even theoretically) make a difference in the build. in order to
> > make sure this patch didn't break anything, i went with a straight
> > cut-and-paste of the content to go into the new moduleinfo.h.
>
> __attribute_used__ is pointless outside of function definitions so
> the way it is currently written is incorrect.
>
> > so while i agree that those changes shouldn't hurt, personally,
> > i'd prefer to just put this patch through as is and come back
> > later to do any tidying related to attribute rewording.
>
> __attribute_used__ is deprecated so it would be helpful to change it
> now instead of requiring a second patch. It's better if new patches
> no longer use a deprecated attribute.
fair enough. i'll submit a revised patch shortly.
rday
p.s. um ... just off-hand, i'm hoping that people understand the
rationale behind this patch.
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