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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: driver-core tree build failure
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:08:41 +0100
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:29:50 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote:

> > The same could be done with the problematic pr_fmt definition:
> > 
> > #define pr_fmt(fmt)     __func__ ": " fmt
> 
> No, that also doesn't work:
> 
> | crypto/zlib.c:150: error: expected '}' before string constant
> | crypto/zlib.c:150: error: expected ')' before '__func__'
> | crypto/zlib.c:162: error: expected '}' before string constant
> | crypto/zlib.c:162: error: expected ')' before '__func__'
> | crypto/zlib.c:166: error: expected '}' before string constant
> | crypto/zlib.c:166: error: expected ')' before '__func__'
> | crypto/zlib.c:170: error: expected '}' before string constant
> | crypto/zlib.c:170: error: expected ')' before '__func__'
> 
> > > BTW, Martin: Is `#define pr_fmt(fmt)     "%s: " fmt, __func__' a valid and
> > > intended usage of your pr_fmt() infrastructure?
> > 
> > The indended use is a simple prefix to the format string. To paste an
> > additional parameter is an interesting use of the pr_fmt macro ..
> 
> Bummer, I was so happy I could do things like
> 
> | #define pr_fmt(fmt)	"%s:%u: " fmt, __func__, __LINE__

Actually that seem like a nice thing to have. With the upstream version of
dynamic_pr_debug this works, there the format string is used only on a printk.
git commit 25b67b75587d43ff3f09ad88c03c70a38372d95d introduces the code
that pastes the format string to the _ddebug structure.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.