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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:02:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Compiler Attributes: don't pollute userspace with
 macro definitions
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:25 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> Moving the __KERNEL__ guard should not affect the kernel, only what
> userspace sees.  __gnu_inline only affects which
> implementation/definition you get, so even if userspace doesn't know
> what the kernel's inline is redefined to, it should not matter as
> userspace should only ever care about the function signature, which
> does not change between our definitions of inline.

Hm... I am unsure what you mean by this. Were you replying to me or to
the original patch?

Cheers,
Miguel