Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland Dreier <> | Subject | Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 10/14] infiniband: use printk_once | Date | Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:42:18 -0700 |
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> I'm a bit nervous about this one. > printk_once will print once ONLY if CONFIG_PRINTK is set in include/linux/autoconf.h > (i.e., when the kernel is configured). Otherwise, it gets defined to printk -- > and it will always print in this case. > (see 2.6.30.xx kernel include file "include/linux/kernel.h", lines 235, 249, and 272).
Umm... if CONFIG_PRINTK is turned off nothing prints, right?
> Do you think that distributions will ALWAYS have CONFIG_PRINTK defined?
Yes, I suspect they do want to get kernel messages.
- R.
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