Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Set all options in region debugfs file

From: Chandra Gorentla
Date: Wed Aug 19 2015 - 08:30:34 EST


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:01:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:32:17PM +0530, Chandra S Gorentla wrote:
> > This patch allows setting all options in the module's debug region
> > options file 'wilc_debug_region'. This functionality allows the user
> > to enable logging from all regions (initialization, locks, firmware
> > etc.) of the driver. Logging from the following regions is enabled
> > during the driver initialization:
> >
> > INIT_DBG, GENERIC_DBG, CFG80211_DBG, FIRM_DBG and HOSTAPD_DBG
> >
> > Before this change, the numerical value set is equal first byte of
> > input minus 0x30 (ASCII value of '0'). Because of this, after a write
> > to this debugfs file, it is difficult to predict the regions on which
> > logging is enabled.
> >
> > The DBG_REGION_ALL now includes 3 additional regions TCP_ENH, SPIN_DEBUG
> > and FIRM_DBG.
>
> Why did you add these extra ones?
I added them because there is code support them and to avoid a holes in
the range of the options.
>
> All of this should eventually just be deleted, as network drivers need
> to use the networking driver debug interfaces, not their own crazy ones.
In that case, can I assume that we are not going forward with this change?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thank you,
chandra
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