[PATCH] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types

[Martin Galvan]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Martin Galvan
<martin.galvan@tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
> Actually, disregard that. I took a look at how gen-as-const seems to
> work, and noticed each directory is used on has a .sym file with all
> the macros and such neatly set for awk to do its thing. Silly me, I
> thought you were asking me to extract them from the .h files
> themselves.
>
> What I'm gonna do is, import a macros.py file in printers.py.
> macros.py will in turn be generated from a .sym file where I'll place
> all the macros/enums I need. Then I'll add some comments pointing out
> that any updates to the headers should be reflected on the .sym file.

Come to think about it, though, I don't see what would be the real
advantage of doing this over simply updating printers.py. In both
cases the maintainer would have to update both the header and a
separate file that'll be used by the printers. How exactly does
gen-as-const work?