linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/19] perfmon2 minimal v3: introduction

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:21:54 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	eranian@...il.com
Cc:	"stephane eranian" <eranian@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/19] perfmon2 minimal v3: introduction

Hi Stephane,

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:59:34 -0700 "stephane eranian" <eranian@...glemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:20 PM, stephane eranian
> <eranian@...glemail.com> wrote:
> >>        quite a few of the macros (especially for the dummy (non
> >> CONFIG_PERFMON) versions of functions) should be "static inline"
> >> functions unless they absolutely must be macros.  Andrew Morton said it
> >> best - "write in C not C preprocessor".
> >>
> Do you also have a problem with the debug printk statements using macros?

Not really, they would be a pain to write as C code.

The advantage of using C code for the dummy versions of things is that we
still get type checking and we eliminate "unused variable" warnings for
parameters of the functions.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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