Re: [PATCH] net: Use a more standard macro for INET_ADDR_COOKIE

From: David Miller
Date: Wed May 14 2014 - 16:08:54 EST


From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:30:07 -0700

> Missing a colon on definition use is a bit odd so
> change the macro for the 32 bit case to declare an
> __attribute__((unused)) and __deprecated variable.
>
> The __deprecated attribute will cause gcc to emit
> an error if the variable is actually used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This is fine, applied, thanks Joe.

Perhaps it would have been nicer to make the macros be initializers,
so that it still would look like a proper variable declaration at
the use sites:

const __addrpair var = INET_ADDR_COOKIE(x, y, z);

or something like that.
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