netdev - Re: [PATCH] pktgen - define and use pktgen

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:05:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen - define and use pktgen_dbg,err,warn,info

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:21:00 -0700

> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:49 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:14:13 -0700
> > 
> > > -#define VERSION  "pktgen v2.68: Packet Generator for packet performance testing.\n"
> > > +#define PKTGEN_NAME    "pktgen"
> > > +#define PKTGEN_VERSION "v2.68"
> > > +#define PKTGEN_DESC    "Packet Generator for packet performance testing"
> > > +#define PKTGEN_FULLINFO PKTGEN_NAME " " PKTGEN_VERSION ": " PKTGEN_DESC ".\n"
> >  ...
> > 
> > > -static char version[] __initdata = VERSION;
> > > -
> > 
> > Using PKTGEN_FULLINFO explicitly won't get that string into the
> > __initdata section as the version[] will, that's why people do it that
> > way with the explicit version[] array.
> > 
> > Please put it back, assign PKTGEN_FULLINFO to it, and use it.
> 
> Done. Here you are.
> 
> fyi:
> pktgen_info(version) fails compile,
> pktgen_info("%s", version) works.

I still don't know about this patch.  Instead of the simple
transformation:

-	printk(foo);
+	printk(KERN_INFO foo);

we get this new macro, and the lines changes to use that macro.

It seems very over-engineered and adds ifdefs to a foo.c file
which is severly frowned upon.

I'm going to add the needed KERN_* to pktgen.c, that's just so
much nicer a way to handle this.
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