linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] scsi/NCR5380: fix debugging macros and #include structure

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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:47:52 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, Sam Creasey <sammy@...my.net>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Michael Schmitz <schmitz@...ian.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] scsi/NCR5380: fix debugging macros and #include
 structure


On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 10:14 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> As for side-effects, chip register accesses would be affected if dprintk() 
> expanded to no_printk() when NDEBUG & flg == 0.
> 
> E.g. NCR5380.c line 1213:
> dprintk(NDEBUG_INTR, "scsi : unknown interrupt, BASR 0x%X, MR 0x%X, SR 0x%x\n",
>                      basr, NCR5380_read(MODE_REG), NCR5380_read(STATUS_REG));
> 
> I don't want to re-introduce side-effects into a dozen different NCR5380 
> drivers on three different architectures when I can test only one of those 
> drivers. It's difficult to get good code coverage even for one driver.

Hi again Finn.

If dprintk expanded directly to no_printk, then true.

But using "if (0)" prevents the no_printk from
occurring at all so there would be no side-effects
and the format & args would still be verified by the
compiler.

So I believe you shouldn't worry about side-effects.

cheers, Joe


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