netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next] pktgen: Use seq_puts() where seq

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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2014 15:08:06 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Alexei Starovoitov' <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] pktgen: Use seq_puts() where seq_printf() is
 not needed

From: Alexei Starovoitov
> > -       seq_printf(seq, "dst_mac: ");
> > +       seq_puts(seq, "dst_mac: ");
> 
> tough luck of kernel developers... ;)
> Normal printf() GCC optimizes into puts() automatically.

Yes - a PITA when you are compiling for an embedded system
with a very limited 'libc'.

Unless I was actually worried about the execution time I'd
leave them as seq_printf() for consistency through the function.

	David