Re: [PATCH] removes unnessary print of space

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Mon Sep 06 2004 - 07:19:51 EST


On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:08:26AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Until some smarty comes along and optimises printk() to skip empty
> strings.

define the bahavior to disallow that

> An explicit wake_up_klogd() thing might make sense, rather than
> relying upon side-effects.

what about something like:

#define wake_up_klogd() (printk(NULL))

then? and have printk short-circuit where required when it gets NULL
but still wake the console up?


--cw
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