Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754296AbZCKDcf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:32:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753738AbZCKDcZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:32:25 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:35775 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753589AbZCKDcY (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:32:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:30:11 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jason Baron Cc: Martin Schwidefsky , Geert Uytterhoeven , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Greg Banks , Herbert Xu , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: linux-next: driver-core tree build failure Message-ID: <20090311033011.GA28527@kroah.com> References: <20090310192440.949884a1.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090310145311.6bf9d9e9@skybase> <20090310170841.2257de86@skybase> <20090310200200.GB3091@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090310200200.GB3091@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2502 Lines: 60 On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:02:00PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:08:41PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:29:50 +0100 (CET) > > Geert Uytterhoeven 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. > > > > hmmm...yeah, some macro magic in include/linux/dynamic_debug.h converts > the 'fmt' arg into a series of strings. It doesn't look as pretty in the > dynamic debug control file: > > crypto/zlib.c:333 [zlib]zlib_decompress_final - "\042%s: \042 > \042avail_in %u, avail_out %u (consumed %u, produced %u)\n\042, > __func__" > > with all those '\042' there, which are the '"' characters, but we > probably could live with it. > > patch below. Can you resend this with a description of what the patch does so I can apply it? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/