Re: [PATCH] x86: PIC, L-APIC and I/O APIC debug information

[Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>]

Maciej W. Rozycki writes:
 >  Dump all the PIC, local APIC and I/O APIC information at the
 > fs_initcall() level, which is after ACPI (if used) has initialised PCI
 > information, making the point of invocation consistent across MP-table and
 > ACPI platforms.  Remove explicit calls to print_IO_APIC() from elsewhere.  
 > Make the interface of all the functions involved consistent between 32-bit
 > and 64-bit versions and make them all static by default by the means of a
 > New-and-Improved(TM) __apicdebuginit() macro.
...
 > +#define __apicdebuginit(type) static type __init
...
 > -void __init print_IO_APIC(void)
 > +
 > +__apicdebuginit(void) print_IO_APIC(void)
 >  {

I _really_ dislike how this abuses the C macro preprocessor
to create pointless new syntax.

Since you're editing these function definitions anyway why
not just spell out "static void __init" in readable proper C?

/Mikael