From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: use CONFIG_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_* directly
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 16:23:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBq/2ojccc4ZZp9y@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eehy27b5.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de>
On Tue 2021-02-02 09:44:22, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2021-02-02, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
> > CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT is nothing more than a shorthand of
> > CONFIG_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT.
> >
> > When you change CONFIG_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT from Kconfig, almost
> > all objects are rebuilt because CONFIG_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT is
> > used in <linux/printk.h>, which is included from most of source files.
> >
> > In fact, there are only 4 users of CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT:
> >
> > arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c
> > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
> > drivers/tty/sysrq.c
> > kernel/printk/printk.c
> >
> > So, when you change CONFIG_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT and rebuild the
> > kernel, it is enough to recompile those 4 files.
> >
> > Remove the CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT definition from <linux/printk.h>,
> > and use CONFIG_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT directly.
>
> With commit a8fe19ebfbfd ("kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for
> console loglevels") it can be seen that various drivers used to
> hard-code their own values. The introduction of the macros in an
> intuitive location (include/linux/printk.h) made it easier for authors
> to find/use the various available printk settings and thresholds.
>
> Technically there is no problem using Kconfig macros directly. But will
> authors bother to hunt down available Kconfig settings? Or will they
> only look in printk.h to see what is available?
>
> IMHO if code wants to use settings from a foreign subsystem, it should
> be taking those from headers of that subsystem, rather than using some
> Kconfig settings from that subsystem. Headers exist to make information
> available to external code. Kconfig (particularly for a subsystem) exist
> to configure that subsystem.
I agree with this this view.
What about using default_console_loglevel() in the external code?
It reads the value from an array. This value is initialized to
CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT and never modified later.
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-03 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-02 7:02 [PATCH 1/3] printk: use CONFIG_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_* directly Masahiro Yamada
2021-02-02 8:38 ` John Ogness
2021-02-03 15:23 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2021-02-03 21:51 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-02-04 10:16 ` Petr Mladek
2021-02-02 10:09 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-02-02 23:04 ` Masahiro Yamada
2021-02-02 10:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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