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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] move __devinit or __init printk constant format strings to __devinitconst or __initdata?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:48:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248212925.10466.143.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248211253.31365.337.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:20 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Is moving constant string formats to __devinitconst or __initdata
> useful for embedded environments?
> 
> As in:
> 
> #define printk_section(section, fmt, ...)				\
> ({ static const section char __fmt[] = fmt; printk(__fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); })
> 
> #define pr_err_section(section, fmt, ...) \
> 	printk_section(section, KERN_ERR pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> 
> with a use of:
> 
> static int __devinit foo_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> 	if (bar())
> 		pr_err_section(__devinitconst,
> 			       "A long error message\n");
> }
> 
> or
> 
> static int __init foo_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> 	if (bar())
> 		pr_err_section(__initdata,
> 			       "A long error message\n");
> }

Interesting notion, but not worth the trouble in my mind. I think it's
more worthwhile to look into automatic such stuff in the build somehow.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-21 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-21 21:20 [RFC] move __devinit or __init printk constant format strings to __devinitconst or __initdata? Joe Perches
2009-07-21 21:48 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2009-07-21 21:56   ` Joe Perches
2009-07-21 22:57     ` Matt Mackall
2009-07-21 23:05       ` Joe Perches
2009-07-21 23:50         ` David Daney
2009-07-22  1:28           ` Matt Mackall
2009-07-22  4:50             ` Joe Perches
2009-07-22  5:17               ` Matt Mackall

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