On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 12:46 +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Joe Perches wrote: > > > But using "if (0)" prevents the no_printk from occurring at all so there > > would be no side-effects and the format & args would still be verified > > by the compiler. > > I'd prefer this (for symmetry and clarity): > > #if NDEBUG > #define dprintk(flg, fmt, ...) \ > do { if ((NDEBUG) & (flg)) pr_debug(fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__); } while (0) > #else > #define dprintk(flg, fmt, ...) \ > do { if (0) pr_debug(fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__); } while (0) > #endif > > But you seem to be asking for this instead: > > #if NDEBUG > #define dprintk(flg, fmt, ...) \ > do { if ((NDEBUG) & (flg)) pr_debug(fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__); } while (0) > #else > #define dprintk(flg, fmt, ...) \ > do { if (0) no_printk(fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__); } while (0) > #endif > > Why is that better? It's not to me. I suggested exactly your first block with if (0) pr_debug... in the first thing I wrote. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/18/216 Geert suggested no_printk. cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html