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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2020-12-01 13:34:14 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2020-12-21 07:57:08 +0300
commitbc72d723ec6b75c53e935e819682c3e67b83e9c1 (patch)
tree5f921ed293ba8c89cbc68ed3c8e1132c836ce882 /scripts
parent436e980e2ed526832de822cbf13c317a458b78e1 (diff)
downloadlinux-bc72d723ec6b75c53e935e819682c3e67b83e9c1.tar.xz
modpost: rename merror() to error()
The log function names, warn(), merror(), fatal() are inconsistent. Commit 2a11665945d5 ("kbuild: distinguish between errors and warnings in modpost") intentionally chose merror() to avoid the conflict with the library function error(). See man page of error(3). But, we are already causing the conflict with warn() because it is also a library function. See man page of warn(3). err() would be a problem for the same reason. The common technique to work around name conflicts is to use macros. For example: /* in a header */ #define error(fmt, ...) __error(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) #define warn(fmt, ...) __warn(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) /* function definition */ void __error(const char *fmt, ...) { <our implementation> } void __warn(const char *fmt, ...) { <our implementation> } In this way, we can implement our own warn() and error(), still we can include <error.h> and <err.h> with no problem. And, commit 93c95e526a4e ("modpost: rework and consolidate logging interface") already did that. Since the log functions are all macros, we can use error() without causing "conflicting types" errors. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c10
-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.h2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index f882ce0d9327..337f6ca4bda3 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -403,8 +403,8 @@ static void sym_update_namespace(const char *symname, const char *namespace)
* actually an assertion.
*/
if (!s) {
- merror("Could not update namespace(%s) for symbol %s\n",
- namespace, symname);
+ error("Could not update namespace(%s) for symbol %s\n",
+ namespace, symname);
return;
}
@@ -2226,7 +2226,7 @@ static int check_modname_len(struct module *mod)
else
mod_name++;
if (strlen(mod_name) >= MODULE_NAME_LEN) {
- merror("module name is too long [%s.ko]\n", mod->name);
+ error("module name is too long [%s.ko]\n", mod->name);
return 1;
}
@@ -2319,8 +2319,8 @@ static int add_versions(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
continue;
}
if (strlen(s->name) >= MODULE_NAME_LEN) {
- merror("too long symbol \"%s\" [%s.ko]\n",
- s->name, mod->name);
+ error("too long symbol \"%s\" [%s.ko]\n",
+ s->name, mod->name);
err = 1;
break;
}
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.h b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
index 3aa052722233..f453504ad4df 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.h
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
@@ -202,5 +202,5 @@ enum loglevel {
void modpost_log(enum loglevel loglevel, const char *fmt, ...);
#define warn(fmt, args...) modpost_log(LOG_WARN, fmt, ##args)
-#define merror(fmt, args...) modpost_log(LOG_ERROR, fmt, ##args)
+#define error(fmt, args...) modpost_log(LOG_ERROR, fmt, ##args)
#define fatal(fmt, args...) modpost_log(LOG_FATAL, fmt, ##args)