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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] venus: Make debug infrastructure more flexible
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:49:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31e1aa72b41f9ff19094476033511442bb6ccda0.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200610133717.GB1906670@kroah.com>

On Wed, 2020-06-10 at 15:37 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Please work with the infrastructure we have, we have spent a lot of time
> and effort to make it uniform to make it easier for users and
> developers.

Not quite.

This lack of debug grouping by type has been a
_long_ standing issue with drivers.

> Don't regress and try to make driver-specific ways of doing
> things, that way lies madness...

It's not driver specific, it allows driver developers to
better isolate various debug states instead of keeping
lists of specific debug messages and enabling them
individually.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-10 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-09 10:45 [PATCH v3 0/7] Venus dynamic debug Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 10:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] Documentation: dynamic-debug: Add description of level bitmask Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 11:09   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-09 11:16   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-09 16:58     ` Joe Perches
2020-06-09 17:42       ` Edward Cree
2020-06-09 17:56         ` Joe Perches
2020-06-09 18:08           ` Edward Cree
2020-06-10  6:31       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-10  6:35         ` Joe Perches
2020-06-10  7:09           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-10  7:24             ` Joe Perches
2020-06-10 10:29     ` Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-10 12:26       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-09 10:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] dynamic_debug: Group debug messages by " Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 12:27   ` Petr Mladek
2020-06-09 10:46 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] dev_printk: Add dev_dbg_level macro over dynamic one Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 10:46 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] printk: Add pr_debug_level " Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 11:12   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-09 10:46 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] venus: Add debugfs interface to set firmware log level Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 11:12   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-11 11:51     ` Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 10:46 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] venus: Make debug infrastructure more flexible Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 11:14   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-10 13:29     ` Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-10 13:37       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-10 19:49         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-06-10 20:23           ` Joe Perches
2020-06-11  6:26             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-11  6:42               ` Joe Perches
2020-06-11 10:52                 ` Daniel Thompson
2020-06-11 11:31                   ` Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-11 12:18                     ` Daniel Thompson
2020-06-11 21:19                       ` jim.cromie
2020-06-11 21:59                         ` Jason Baron
2020-06-11 22:33                           ` Joe Perches
2020-06-12  0:08                         ` jim.cromie
2020-06-09 10:46 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] venus: Add a debugfs file for SSR trigger Stanimir Varbanov
2020-06-09 11:13 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Venus dynamic debug Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-09 16:03   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-06-09 16:49     ` Joe Perches
2020-06-09 21:21       ` jim.cromie
2020-06-09 22:23         ` Joe Perches
2020-06-10  1:58           ` Joe Perches
2020-06-10  3:10           ` jim.cromie
2020-06-09 16:40 ` Joe Perches

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