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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, will.newton@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [MTD/MAPS] Blackfin Async Flash Maps: Handle the case where flash memory and ethernet mac/phy are mapped onto the same async bank
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 21:16:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080513191616.GC18026@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0805131042x2a74115dqc3831a604583bbd5@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:42:04 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:38:45 +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> > > +#define pr_devinit(fmt, args...) ({ static const __devinitdata char __fmt[] = fmt; printk(__fmt, ## args); })
> >
> >  That bit is obvious.  But why do you use pr_devinit() instead of
> >  printk()?  What does it gain you?
> 
> why do we have __init and __devinit in the first place ?

Ah.  Now I finally understand what this code does.

Might be worth moving it to include/linux/kernel.h, along with
pr_init().  And watch an avalanche of janitor patches use these new
toys. :)

Jörn

-- 
Joern's library part 3:
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs152/fa05/handouts/clark-test.pdf

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-13  4:38 [PATCH 1/1] [MTD/MAPS] Blackfin Async Flash Maps: Handle the case where flash memory and ethernet mac/phy are mapped onto the same async bank Bryan Wu
2008-05-13  8:07 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-13 12:42   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-13 15:01     ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-13 15:15       ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-13 15:34         ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-13 17:42           ` Mike Frysinger
2008-05-13 19:16             ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2008-05-14  2:50               ` Bryan Wu
2008-05-13 17:41   ` Mike Frysinger

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