Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros, recursive vsnprintf

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed,  3 Mar 2010 22:27:21 -0800
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> (Typo'ed Linus' email address, added Greg KH and netdev)

What is the networking significance here?

> dev_<level> macros use a lot of repetitive string space.
> 
> Eliminate the string prefixes and function arguments from all the macro uses
> and consolidate them in functions.
> 
> This patchset saves about 60K.
> 
> This implementation also adds the ability to use a struct va_format to
> emit a format string along with va_list arguments.
> 
> This %pV implementation should not be used without a wrapper that
> does printf argument verification like the dev_<level> functions.
> 
> Inspired a bit by Nick Andrew's patches and Linus' comments in December 2008
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/6/15
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/6/101
> 

Looks like a reasonable approach, although I didn't check how much
additional stack the recursion will take.  Bear in mind that printk()
can be called from super-deep contexts.

What would I need to do to make it recur more than once?  Include a %pV
in a string, like dev_printk("%s", %%pV")?