Re: [PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam

[J.A. Magallon]

On 2005.10.26, at 17:23, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 10/26/05, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 06:28, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot.
> >
> > It doesn't do that. It prints it once every 2^32 calls. Also
>
> I noted that as well. How about just using something along the  
> lines of
>
> static unsigned char printed_message = 0;
> if (!printed_message) {
>     printk(...);
>     printed_message++;
> }

Sorry, but why not the old good

    printed_message = 1

??
What kind of microoptimization is that ?

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