Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Drop custom logging

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Jan 19 2023 - 09:25:53 EST


On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:47:44PM +0000, Phil Elwell wrote:
> > > I understand the desire to remove the custom logging. I don't welcome
> > > the loss of flexibility that comes with such a strategy
> >
> > What "loss of flexibility"? You now have access to the full dynamic
> > debugging facilities that all of the rest of the kernel has. What is
> > lacking?
>
> Perhaps I've missed something, either in this patch set or the kernel
> as a whole, but how is one supposed to set different logging levels on
> different facilities within a driver/module, or even for the module as
> a whole?

Yeah. You will be still able to do that and more besides after the
transition. Cleaning this up makes the code better in every way.

Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst

regards,
dan carpenter