[RFC PATCH 0/4] Drop custom logging

Phil Elwell phil at raspberrypi.com
Thu Jan 19 06:31:50 PST 2023


On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 14:25, Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Are you saying this patch set gets us to that point?



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