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

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Saturday 06 October 2007 1:10:26 am Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 10/5/07, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> > The original idea (selectively compile out printk() instances based on
> > log level to conserve space) is explicitly not addressed by this patch,
> > and in fact this patch might actually make it harder to implement (by
> > complicating the code).
>
> This is wrong. The patch provides log-level-based filtering at compile
> time, effectively making the kernel smaller.

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...

Rob
-- 
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