[RFC PATCH 0/4] Drop custom logging

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jan 19 01:34:16 PST 2023


On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 05:28:06PM +0530, Umang Jain wrote:
> Drop custom logging from the vchiq interface.
> Mostly of them are replaced with dev_dbg and friends
> and/or pr_info and friends. 

Everything should be dev_*() calls, there should never be a pr_* call in
a driver.

> The debugfs log levels (in 4/4) are mapped to kernel
> logs levels (coming from include/linux/kern_levels.h)
> Would like some thoughts on it as I am not sure (hence
> marking this is RFC)

Do not have any "custom" debugging controls in a driver, they are not
special and should follow the whole rest of the kernel.  Just remove
them all and rely on the existing dev_*() calls instead please.

thanks,

greg k-h



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