Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: mac80211: Neaten debugging

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 03:59:35 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 01:23 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:20:29 -0700
>
> > Always use pr_debug variants instead of printk(KERN_DEBUG...)
> >
> > Joe Perches (3):
> > net: mac80211: Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug
> > net: mac80211: Add and use ht_vdbg debugging macro
> > net: mac80211: Add and use ibss_vdbg debugging macro
>
> I really think this is the right thing to do and I hope the wireless
> folks integrate this.
>
> I am well aware that you guys intend for some of these messages to be
> indications and notifications the user is intended to SEE, but in the
> cases where that is true KERN_DEBUG is absolutely not appropriate.
>
> You should be using KERN_INFO or KERN_WARN in those situations
> instead.

Yeah, makes sense. I wonder if it makes sense to leave these under
#ifdef though? Why #ifdef something if it's going to be invisible most
of the time anyway?

johannes

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