Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the rcu tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Mon May 29 2017 - 23:14:00 EST


Hi Joe,

On Mon, 29 May 2017 19:20:25 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 19:14 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 06:54:26PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2017-05-30 at 11:40 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > > Hi Paul,
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 29 May 2017 14:15:05 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone see any other options?
> > >
> > > My preferred option would be removing pr_fmt
> > > and adding a couple new macros.
> >
> > Not sure how to evaluate yours and Stephen's changes, but I reverted my
> > conversion to a macro based on the hope that something good will come
> > of this effort. ;-)
>
> Stephen's suggestion makes the format and arguments
> have an apparent mismatch. What I suggested hides
> the "module %s: ", mod->name bit in the macros (like
> the older pr_fmt use), allows anyone else to #define
> pr_fmt to taste, and keeps the format and arguments in
> agreement.

Yours is much better, mine was just a quick hack ... consider yours

Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell