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SubjectRe: [PATCH 14/14] kernel/exit.c and kernel/panic.c: Remove unused NORET_TYPE
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On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:09 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Make the functions match the prototypes in <linux/kernel.h>
> It's defined to nothing and useless

Uhm, why not make it useful again and define it to something like:

#define NORET_TYPE __attribute__((noreturn))

except I guess that should come after the function name, not before.

Annotations that tell a particular function is not supposed to exit
seems useful to me..




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