On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 16:48 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:20 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > Is moving constant string formats to __devinitconst or __initdata > > useful for embedded environments? > > As in: > > #define printk_section(section, fmt, ...) \ > > ({ static const section char __fmt[] = fmt; printk(__fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); }) > > #define pr_err_section(section, fmt, ...) \ > > printk_section(section, KERN_ERR pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__) > > with a use of: > > static int __devinit foo_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > > { > > if (bar()) > > pr_err_section(__devinitconst, > > "A long error message\n"); > > } > Interesting notion, but not worth the trouble in my mind. I think it's > more worthwhile to look into automatic such stuff in the build somehow. I think it's not possible today to get gcc to mark the format strings without source modification. It's pretty easy to script a source conversion. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html