Re: [PATCH] x86/crypto: fix %progbits -> @progbits

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jan 25 2017 - 17:42:03 EST


On 01/19/17 13:28, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> %progbits form is used on ARM (where @ is a comment char).
>
> x86 consistently uses @progbits everywhere else.

However, it looks like %progbits works on all architectures (at least
include/linux/init.h seems to imply so.) Perhaps a tree-wide
replacement the other way would make more sense.

Personally I would also like to see these parameters macroized, to keep
someone from getting them wrong, just like we have __INIT, __INITRODATA
etc already, we should just have plain __TEXT __DATA __BSS...

-hpa