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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:34:07 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] printk: Convert pr_<level> macros to functions
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On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:29:52 -0800
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> > Or perhaps we can do it via a helper function which takes the
> > additional argument?
> > asmlinkage int pr_everything(char levelchar, const char *fmt, ...)
> 
> I believe that could not work.
> The symbol names to link against wouldn't be found.

Obviously one would need eight little functions, each of which calls
pr_everything().