Re: [RFC][PATCH] New message-logging API (kprint)

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Mon Oct 08 2007 - 11:34:07 EST


On 10/8/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:50:49 -0500
> Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 06 October 2007 1:10:26 am Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > > On 10/5/07, Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I made it about halfway through the patch and the only compile time filtering
> > I found was:
> >
> > --- a/drivers/md/md.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
> > @@ -62,7 +62,10 @@
> > #define MdpMinorShift 6
> >
> > #define DEBUG 0
> > -#define dprintk(x...) ((void)(DEBUG && printk(x)))
> > +#define dprintk(x...)\
> > +if(DEBUG) {\
> > + printk(x);\
> > +}
> >
> > If you say it does, I'll take your word for it, but there's so much churn in
> > there I didn't find it before my interest ran out...
> >
>
> BTW that change might actually break code (dangling else problems).
> The original way was safer.

Yep, thanks. I think containing it in do {} while(0) should fix, though, no?

Vegard
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