Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks
Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc
format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index d848cb8..2b0a35e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -306,6 +306,13 @@
}
#endif
+/*
+ * Dummy printk for disabled debugging statements to use whilst maintaining
+ * gcc's format and side-effect checking.
+ */
+static inline __attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2)))
+int no_printk(const char *s, ...) { return 0; }
+
extern int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu);
extern void printk_tick(void);