[RFC PATCH 0/4] Drop custom logging

Dan Carpenter error27 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 06:25:41 PST 2023


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




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