Re: [PATCH] eliminate warnings in generated module files

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:47:59 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> __optional should always be __attribute__((__unused__)), and
> __required should be your __attribute_used__.

But I think rth's point was that "__module_depends" should definitely
_not_ be "optional", since that just means that the compiler can (and
will) optimize away the whole thing.

So marking it optional is definitely the wrong thing to do.

Linus

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