Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Remove side effects from vdbg_printk -> no_printk macro

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 15:13, Joe Perches wrote:
> vdbg_printk when not using CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_DEBUG uses
> no_printk which produces no logging output but always
> evaluates arguments.
> 
> Change the macro to surround the no_printk call with
> 	do { if (0) no_printk(...); } while (0)
> to avoid the unnecessary argument evaluations.
> 
> $ size drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o*
>    text       data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   60918      6184     824   67926   10956
>   drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o.new
>   60927      6184     824   67935   1095f
>   drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.o.old

The code size savings of this change are really small...

> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static const char *str_supported(int is_supported);
>  #else
>  static inline const char *str_supported(int is_supported) { return ""; }
>  #define vdbg_printk(a_dbg_level, format, arg...)        \
> -       no_printk(format, ##arg)
> +       do { if (0) no_printk(format, ##arg); } while (0)
>  #endif

And won't this change disable compile-time checking of 'format ## arg'
for issues?

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