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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Oct 2020 12:15:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH next-20200930] treewide: Convert macro and uses of
 __section(foo) to __section("foo")
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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Hi Joe,

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 12:56 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> So I installed the powerpc cross compiler, and
> nope, that doesn't work, it makes a mess.

Thanks a lot for reviving the script and sending the treewide cleanup!

> 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).

Cheers,
Miguel