linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the rcu tree

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Date:   Mon, 29 May 2017 19:20:25 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
        Steven Miao <realmz6@...il.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the rcu tree

On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 19:14 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 06:54:26PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 11:40 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi Paul,
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:15:05 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone see any other options?
> > 
> > My preferred option would be removing pr_fmt
> > and adding a couple new macros.
> 
> Not sure how to evaluate yours and Stephen's changes, but I reverted my
> conversion to a macro based on the hope that something good will come
> of this effort.  ;-)

Stephen's suggestion makes the format and arguments
have an apparent mismatch.  What I suggested hides
the "module %s: ", mod->name bit in the macros (like
the older pr_fmt use), allows anyone else to #define
pr_fmt to taste, and keeps the format and arguments in
agreement.