netdev - Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Create _rtl_dbg_trace function to reduce RT

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2016 09:19:51 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn>
Cc:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: Create _rtl_dbg_trace function to reduce
 RT_TRACE code size

On 06/27/2016 10:55 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 19:53 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 06/25/2016 05:46 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>
>>> This debugging macro can expand to a lot of code.
>>> Make it a function to reduce code size.
>>>
>>> (x86-64 defconfig w/ all rtlwifi drivers and allyesconfig)
>>> $ size drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/built-in.o*
>>>      text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>>    900083	 200499	   1907	1102489	 10d299	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/built-in.o.defconfig.new
>>> 1113597	 200499	   1907	1316003	 1414a3	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/built-in.o.defconfig.old
>>> 1746879	 453503	   8512	2208894	 21b47e	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/built-in.o.new
>>> 2051965	 503311	   8512	2563788	 271ecc	drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/built-in.o.old
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
>> I acked this before; however there is a bug that breaks the build if
>> CONFIG_RTLWIFI_DEBUG is not defined. The rest of the code calls
>> _rtl_dbg_trace(), but that symbol is never defined. The problem can be fixed in
>> debug.c or debug.h.
>
> Confused a bit.  What breaks again?

Nothing breaks and your patch is OK. I had ported it to a GitHub repo of these 
drivers, which had a different debug.h. That led to the missing global when 
CONFIG_RTLWIFI_DEBUG was not defined. That has now been fixed.

Sorry for the confusion.

Larry