orb pointer printf() question

[Hidetoshi Shimokawa]

At Tue, 8 Jun 2004 10:57:50 +0200 (CEST),
Barry Bouwsma wrote:
> 
> [drop the above ipv6-only address that only sometimes works from the
>  recipients and I'll catch up later from the archives, thanks]
> 
> 
> Moin, moin.
> 
> A quick question, concerning the following code:
> 
>         if ((sdev->flags & ORB_POINTER_ACTIVE) != 0) {
> SBP_DEBUG(0)
>                 printf("%s: orb pointer active\n", __func__);
> END_DEBUG
>                 sdev->flags |= ORB_POINTER_NEED;
>                 return;
>         }
> 
> This is in the sbp.c code from the time of 4.10, which is what I've
> used on my machine with a hard drive attached via firewire.
> 
> It seems to be working just fine, with the only thing being that
> the above printf() makes it to the kernel messages a few times
> each minute during disk activity.
> 
> Is this something for me to concern myself over?  What does it
> mean?
> 
> If it's harmless, would it be better to change the above SBP_DEBUG
> to be DEBUG(1) instead of (0) so as not to print at the default
> level of debugging, or is it better to log it as is?
> 
> 
> thanks
> barry bouwsma

It's harmless.

I believe that the default level of debugging is 0 and
the DEBUG(0) clauses is not executed.

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