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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, Sam Creasey <sammy@sammy.net>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Michael Schmitz <schmitz@debian.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] scsi/NCR5380: fix debugging macros and #include structure
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:47:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1395190072.8649.2.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1403190925550.6652@nippy.intranet>


On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 10:14 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> As for side-effects, chip register accesses would be affected if dprintk() 
> expanded to no_printk() when NDEBUG & flg == 0.
> 
> E.g. NCR5380.c line 1213:
> dprintk(NDEBUG_INTR, "scsi : unknown interrupt, BASR 0x%X, MR 0x%X, SR 0x%x\n",
>                      basr, NCR5380_read(MODE_REG), NCR5380_read(STATUS_REG));
> 
> I don't want to re-introduce side-effects into a dozen different NCR5380 
> drivers on three different architectures when I can test only one of those 
> drivers. It's difficult to get good code coverage even for one driver.

Hi again Finn.

If dprintk expanded directly to no_printk, then true.

But using "if (0)" prevents the no_printk from
occurring at all so there would be no side-effects
and the format & args would still be verified by the
compiler.

So I believe you shouldn't worry about side-effects.

cheers, Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-19  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-18  0:28 [PATCH 00/12] scsi/NCR5380: fix debugging macros and #include structure Finn Thain
2014-03-18  3:19 ` Joe Perches
2014-03-18 12:00   ` Finn Thain
2014-03-18 12:45     ` Joe Perches
2014-03-18 12:55       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-03-18 13:07         ` Joe Perches
2014-03-18 13:13           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-03-18 13:20             ` Joe Perches
2014-03-18 23:14           ` Finn Thain
2014-03-19  0:47             ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-03-19  1:46               ` Finn Thain
2014-03-19  1:54                 ` Joe Perches
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-18  0:42 Finn Thain

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