From: Dan Williams Duplicate what Zach Brown did for pr_debug in commit 8b2a1fd1b394c60eaa2587716102dd5e9b4e5990 Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/device.h | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/device.h~dev_dbg-check-dev_dbg-arguments include/linux/device.h --- a/include/linux/device.h~dev_dbg-check-dev_dbg-arguments +++ a/include/linux/device.h @@ -571,7 +571,11 @@ extern const char *dev_driver_string(str #define dev_dbg(dev, format, arg...) \ dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG , dev , format , ## arg) #else -#define dev_dbg(dev, format, arg...) do { (void)(dev); } while (0) +static inline int __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3))) +dev_dbg(struct device * dev, const char * fmt, ...) +{ + return 0; +} #endif #define dev_err(dev, format, arg...) \ _