On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 09:26:23PM +0530, [email protected] wrote: > From: Gideon Israel Dsouza <[email protected]> > > Continuing from this commit: 52f5684c8e1e > ("kernel: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))") > > I submitted 4 total patches. They are part of task I've taken up to > increase compiler portability in the kernel. I've cleaned up the > subsystems under /kernel /mm /block and /security, this patch targets > /crypto. > > There is <linux/compiler.h> which provides macros for various gcc specific > constructs. Eg: __weak for __attribute__((weak)). I've cleaned all > instances of gcc specific attributes with the right macros for the crypto > subsystem. > > I had to make one additional change into compiler-gcc.h for the case when > one wants to use this: __attribute__((aligned) and not specify an alignment > factor. From the gcc docs, this will result in the largest alignment for > that data type on the target machine so I've named the macro > __aligned_largest. Please advise if another name is more appropriate. > > Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza <[email protected]>
Patch applied. Thanks. -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
