Re: [PATCH] do not call trace_printk on non-debug build

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:20:03 +0000
Wei Wang <wvw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> checkpatch.pl sounds good. One thing to add is we have many off tree
> patches with abuse trace_printk. Also as you mentioned, given this is
> really not for use in production and we have been cleaning this our on our
> side for years, could we consider to enforce this in kernel?

That nasty warning was suppose to be the enforcement. I would expect
nobody would ship a kernel where it produced such a message on boot (or
loading of a module). If they don't notice, then they are not testing
their code.

A lot of kernel developers use trace_printk() and I want to make it as
easy to use as possible. I don't want to add a config to enable it,
because that would be something that could be rather annoying.

Let's add it to checkpatch and see if that can draining the swamp of
abusers.

-- Steve