__UNIQUE_ID()

Jan Beulich points out __COUNTER__ (gcc 4.3 and above), so let's use
that to create unique ids.  This is better than __LINE__ which we use
today, so provide a wrapper.

Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> reported that some module parameters
start with a digit, so we need to prepend when we for the unique id.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
index 412bc6c2b023..56c802cba7f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 
 #define __linktime_error(message) __attribute__((__error__(message)))
 
+#define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
+
 #if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 5
 /*
  * Mark a position in code as unreachable.  This can be used to