Re: [PATCH] sparse/parse.c: ignore hotpatch attribute

[Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:48 AM, Heiko Carstens
> <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> > gcc knows about a new "hotpatch" attribute which sparse can safely ignore,
> > since it modifies only which code will be generated just like the
> > "no_instrument_function" attribute.
> 
> I'm wondering if sparse should just ignore all attributes it doesn't
> recognize, so that we could just remove this ever-expanding list of
> things that don't actually matter for sparse..
> 
> The "unrecognized attribute" thing made more sense way back when -
> when I wanted to get he basic attributes handled. Now it's just
> noise...
>
The list of attributes does not really exapand quickly so explicitly
marking them to be ignored after a new "unrecognized attribute" triggers
would have the advantage that it is actually looked at and not
silently ignored.

thx!
hofrat