netdev - Re: [PATCH] mac8390: change an error return code and some cleanup, take 4

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Date:	Mon, 31 May 2010 11:58:30 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	fthain@...egraphics.com.au
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, joe@...ches.com,
	p_gortmaker@...oo.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac8390: change an error return code and some cleanup, 
	take 4

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:21,  <fthain@...egraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010, David Miller wrote:
>> This is getting tiring Finn.
>
> I agree. My patch addresses all of the criticism of the earlier
> submissions.
>
> To make it plain: there are 25 files or so that use ei_debug. Three of
> those that now have the KERN_DEBUG printk's suppresed by the DEBUG macro
> only do so as an apparently unintended side effect of a commit that claims
> to "implement dynmic debug infrastructure". (Go figure.)
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=dd0fab5b940c0b65f26ac5b01485bac1f690ace6
>
> Your suggestion to use pr_debug is invoking compile time infrastructure
> (the DEBUG macro), so it is not in the spirit of this commit, and it is
> not relevant to any criticism from you or Joe of the earlier submissions.
>
> Please apply the patch.

`pr_debug()' indeed now may generate code if DEBUG is not defined,
i.e. if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is enabled.
This is intented for debug infrastructure the user may want to enable later.

If you want the old behavior, you can use `pr_devel()' instead, which
only generates code if DEBUG is defined.
This is intended for debug infrastructure for developers only.

However, you used `printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt()...)`, which always generates code.
I'm still not 100% sure that was intentional?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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