On Thu, 27 May 2010, walter harms wrote: > > > Dan Carpenter schrieb: > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > >> If it is a problem to use 0 when host is NULL, then the code could be fixed > >> in another way. > >> > > > > Yeah. It seems like it would be better to give a clearly bogus number. > > I would have said -1 but "scsi-1" looks normal so maybe something like > > 9999999? > > > > lets spend some bytes: > > > if (host) > dprintk("scsi%d: hptiop_probe failed\n",host->host_no); > else > dprintk("scsi: no host, hptiop_probe failed\n"); dprintk is defined in hptiop.h as: #if 0 #define dprintk(fmt, args...) do { printk(fmt, ##args); } while(0) #else #define dprintk(fmt, args...) #endif So unless someone adjusts the #if 0, there is no code. I guess there is a danger that adding such an if would actually generate some code? julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html