On 25 Dec 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
| On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 00:46, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
| >
| > I'm glad to see this patch available, as Greg was.
| > Now I have some questions about it.
| >
| > a. Is it only for drivers? If so, why?
| > Filesystems and other subsystems that are not drivers could use
| > something like this also.
|
| Definitely - fs_printk, inode_printk etc may all make sense
| >
| > b. Is it only for drivers that have a device?
| > What does a driver use for dev_printk() if it doesn't have a <dev>?
| > However, these do cover the large majority of cases, so that's good.
|
| This case isnt covered. All devices should eventually have a dev right
| 8)
Eventually, but not always. Anyway, after another day or 2 to
reflect on it, I'll withdraw the comment I made about checking
<dev> for NULL in those macros. They can/should be context-sensitive.
-- ~Randy- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Dec 31 2002 - 22:00:08 EST