From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:50:21 +0200
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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:25, Vasily Tarasov wrote:
> Actually I didn't use __attribute__, 'case I'v heard, ?that this isn't
> encouraged now to use __attribute__((...)) in kernel. But if you think it
> is ok, and even preferable, I will definitely redo it!

You shouldn't use attributes in ABI headers, because they are
not interpreted correctly by every compiler. For stuff inside
of the kernel, I don't see a reason against it.

	Arnd <><
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