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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Add a never optimized away pr_dbg for
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:44:12 -0700
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On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 21:28 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> The pr_dbg_* variations seem reasonable if the current pr_debug() were 
> changed to pr_dbg().

I think that's unlikely to happen.

> this discussion is irrelevant if there 
> are no current use cases (in which case the patch is pointless).

Yeah, right.  It's alway irrelevant to add new
facilities when where are no current use cases.

I sent a 21 deep patchset over a week ago.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/4/198