[Devel] Re: [PATCH] diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:25, Vasily Tarasov wrote:
> Actually I didn't use __attribute__, 'case I'v heard,  that this isn't
> encouraged now to use __attribute__((...)) in kernel. But if you think it
> is ok, and even preferable, I will definitely redo it!

You shouldn't use attributes in ABI headers, because they are
not interpreted correctly by every compiler. For stuff inside
of the kernel, I don't see a reason against it.

	Arnd <><