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

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Mon Oct 08 2007 - 11:44:38 EST


On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:33:53 +0200
"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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

The correct fix is to just replace dprintk() with pr_debug()

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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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