On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:16:17PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Jessica Yu wrote: > > > Yes, this is a concern and I'm not sure what the best way to fix it > > is. If both MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN were straight up > > constants, then I think Josh's stringify approach would have worked > > perfectly. However since MODULE_NAME_LEN translates to an expression > > (64 - sizeof(unsigned long)), which the preprocessor cannot evaluate, > > we will need another approach. Building the format strings at run time > > might be messier than we'd like. Alternatively we could just go the > > simple route and simply be a bit more aggressive on the upper bound > > for the format width; though the size of long varies on different > > architectures, afaik the max size it could ever be on any arch is 8 > > bytes, so perhaps 64 - 8 = 56 (then - 1 to make room for \0) might be > > an appropriate field width. This would deserve a comment as well. > > So how about actually modifying MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN so > that it's actually properly evaluable at preprocessing time, > i.e. something along the lines of > > diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h > index 52666d9..954dae9 100644 > --- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h > +++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ > #endif > > /* Chosen so that structs with an unsigned long line up. */ > -#define MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long)) > +#define MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN (64 - __SIZEOF_LONG__) > > #ifdef MODULE > #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \ According to my test that still results in the literal value of "(64 - 8)". -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
