Fwd: [RFC PATCH 0/1] compiler_types.h: introduce ASSUME_NONNULL macro for static analysis

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri Jul 25 08:06:31 EDT 2025


On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:34:05AM +0100, Raka Gunarto wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm a really new contributor and I sent off this
> RFC to LKML <https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250723140129.276874-1-rakagunarto@gmail.com/T/#m1372eb992552491ac37f46f27e5ad09d9efa35ad>,
> when I probably should have floated the idea
> here first. In any case, I've pasted my RFC patch below
> and I would really like any feedback / suggestions on the
> idea.

We don't take patches for code that is not actually used.  You added a
macro here that is never called, so why is it even needed?  That's a
good reason why it was ignored.

thanks,

greg k-h



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