Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

Rob Landley
2007-09-21T23:05:38Z

On Friday 21 September 2007 12:45:27 pm Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 13:16 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > What about something *really* hardcore ugly like:
> > #ifdef __FILE__
> > #undef __FILE__
> > #define __FILE__ ""
> > #endif
> > (or similar preprocessor blecherousness) if you want to *really* shrink
> > that binary down?
>
> I prefer removing all __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__ uses
> from printks and defining something that modifies pr_<level>.

pr_level doesn't exist in mainline.

> #define pr_info(fmt, arg) printk(KERN_INFO PR_FMT fmt PR_ARG, ##arg)

Do we really need another layer of indirection?

Rob
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"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.