Re: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros.

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Thu Jul 31 2008 - 04:36:27 EST


On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:39 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/kmsg.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/kmsg.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
> > +#ifndef _LINUX_KMSG_H
> > +#define _LINUX_KMSG_H
> > +
> > +#ifndef __KMSG_CHECKER
> > +#define __KMSG_CHECK(level, id) KERN_##level
> > +#endif
>
> What if __KMSG_CHECKER is enabled? What does __KMSG_CHECK resolve to
> then?
>
> And what sets __KMSG_CHECKER?

The kmsg-doc script sets __KMSG_CHECKER and nothing else should ever
define it. It is used to preprocess the .c files to get at the kernel
messages. See process_cpp_file in the kmsg-doc script.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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