Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264396AbUIMAwS (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:52:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264704AbUIMAwR (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:52:17 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-197-226-105.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.197.226.105]:64927 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264668AbUIMAwK (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:52:10 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:50:41 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add sparse "__iomem" infrastructure to check PCI address usage Message-Id: <20040912175041.71fb385e.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <4144E93E.5030404@pobox.com> References: <200409110726.i8B7QTGn009468@hera.kernel.org> <4144E93E.5030404@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 575 Lines: 17 On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:26:38 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dumb gcc attribute questions: > > 1) what does force do? it doesn't appear to be in gcc 3.3.3 docs. > > 2) is "volatile ... __force" redundant? > > 3) can we use 'malloc' attribute on kmalloc? Jeff, this code you quoted is in the sparse ifdef block. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/