Re: [PATCH net-next] Simplify net_dbg_ratelimited() dummy

[Alex Elder <elder@ieee.org>]

On 2/28/24 8:05 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> There is no need to wrap calls to the no_printk() helper inside an
> always-false check, as no_printk() already does that internally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

This looks fine.  The only difference I see is that no_printk()
returns a value (always 0), while the old way does not.  You
could cast the result to void to avoid that.

Otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>



> ---
>   include/linux/net.h | 5 +----
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/net.h b/include/linux/net.h
> index c9b4a63791a45948..15df6d5f27a7badc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/net.h
> +++ b/include/linux/net.h
> @@ -299,10 +299,7 @@ do {									\
>   	net_ratelimited_function(pr_debug, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
>   #else
>   #define net_dbg_ratelimited(fmt, ...)				\
> -	do {							\
> -		if (0)						\
> -			no_printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> -	} while (0)
> +	no_printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
>   #endif
>   
>   #define net_get_random_once(buf, nbytes)			\