linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v6 02/23] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library

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Message-Id: <1BA7DB23-7BB6-46BA-A3E2-D65BC3CAF11C@amacapital.net>
Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:00:08 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Samuel Neves <sneves@....uc.pt>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 02/23] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library



> On Sep 25, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:33 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> I think the -Dpr_fmt is especially odd and not
>> really acceptable as it not used anywhere else
>> in the kernel.
> 
> There are about 2000 cases in the kernel of the same '#define
> pr_fmt...' being pasted into the top of the file, which seems a bit
> cumbersome. Rather than having to paste that into each and every file
> that I pr_err from, why can't I just do this from the makefile, since
> I want that same pr_fmt to copy the whole directory?

Because people like to be able to just read the C file to figure out what it does. Or we could adopt the Makefile approach kernel-wide, since this use of it seems reasonable.