Re: [PATCH v3 02/10] cxl/pci: Remove dev_dbg for unknown register blocks

From: Ben Widawsky
Date: Sat Oct 09 2021 - 14:04:17 EST


On 21-10-09 09:48:10, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-10-09 at 09:44 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > From: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > While interesting to driver developers, the dev_dbg message doesn't do
> > much except clutter up logs.
>
> So? This isn't enabled by default. How does it 'clutter' logs?
>

Clutter logs for driver developers working on this subsystem. It's fine to drop
this and just use the next sentence as the explanation as well.

> > This information should be attainable
> > through sysfs, and someday lspci like utilities. This change
> > additionally helps reduce the LOC in a subsequent patch to refactor some
> > of cxl_pci register mapping.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/cxl/pci.c | 3 ---
> >  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> > index 64180f46c895..ccc7c2573ddc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cxl/pci.c
> > @@ -475,9 +475,6 @@ static int cxl_pci_setup_regs(struct cxl_mem *cxlm)
> >   cxl_decode_register_block(reg_lo, reg_hi, &bar, &offset,
> >   &reg_type);
> >  
> >
> > - dev_dbg(dev, "Found register block in bar %u @ 0x%llx of type %u\n",
> > - bar, offset, reg_type);
> > -
> >   /* Ignore unknown register block types */
> >   if (reg_type > CXL_REGLOC_RBI_MEMDEV)
> >   continue;
> >
>
>