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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@unhappy.mine.nu>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re:  [PATCH] drivers/net/others
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 10:51:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010524105137.A574@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105240102.DAA27178@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105241035230.10914-100000@boris.prodako.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105241035230.10914-100000@boris.prodako.se>; from "Tobias Ringstrom" on 2001-05-24T10:45:25

On 2001-05-24T10:45:25,
   Tobias Ringstrom <tori@unhappy.mine.nu> said:

> >  	if (!printed_version++)
> > -		printk(version);
> > +		printk("%s", version);
> >
> >  	DMFE_DBUG(0, "dmfe_init_one()", 0);
> >
> 
> Could you please explain the purpose of this change?  To me it looks less
> efficient in both performance and memory usage.

Potentially, version might include stuff which is interpreted by printk if not
quoted - the above fixes this. Paranoia always helps ;-)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. -- J. Yahl


  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-24  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-24  1:02 [PATCH] drivers/net/others Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-05-24  3:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-24  8:45 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-05-24  8:51   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2001-05-24 12:01   ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-05-24 14:30   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-24 16:00     ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-24 18:22       ` Rasmus Andersen
2001-05-25  9:08 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-05-25 11:38   ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz

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