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    SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next v6 02/23] zinc: introduce minimal cryptography library
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    > On Sep 25, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
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    >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 8:33 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
    >> I think the -Dpr_fmt is especially odd and not
    >> really acceptable as it not used anywhere else
    >> in the kernel.
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    > There are about 2000 cases in the kernel of the same '#define
    > pr_fmt...' being pasted into the top of the file, which seems a bit
    > cumbersome. Rather than having to paste that into each and every file
    > that I pr_err from, why can't I just do this from the makefile, since
    > I want that same pr_fmt to copy the whole directory?

    Because people like to be able to just read the C file to figure out what it does. Or we could adopt the Makefile approach kernel-wide, since this use of it seems reasonable.
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