From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: jbaron@akamai.com,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
"Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Gary Hook <Gary.Hook@amd.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Linux Documentation List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/18] dyndbg: rename dynamic_debug to dyndbg
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 08:49:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e758f68-f1f3-432b-7bc0-2691012ec831@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VcSkm4M7VOuMWnNUOMAPbbvmodGfn9_Pu25H213pMuxFA@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/12/2019 23.24, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 11:54 PM Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This rename fixes a subtle usage wrinkle; the __setup() names didn't
>> match the fake "dyndbg" module parameter used to enable dynamic-printk
>> callsites in modules. See the last change in Docs for the effect.
>>
>> It also shortens the "__FILE__:__func__" prefix in dyndbg.verbose
>> messages, effectively s/dynamic_debug/dyndbg/
>>
>> This is a 99.9% rename; trim_prefix and debugfs_create_dir arg excepted.
>> Nonetheless, it also changes both /sys appearances:
>>
>> bash-5.0# ls -R /sys/kernel/debug/dyndbg/ /sys/module/dyndbg/parameters/
>> /sys/kernel/debug/dyndbg/:
>> control
>
>> /sys/module/dyndbg/parameters/:
>
> Isn't this path a part of ABI?
Yeah, I think this is a somewhat dangerous change, and I don't really
see the point.
Unrelated: Jim, if you want these patches picked up eventually, you have
to put akpm on the recipient list (he is on this one, but AFAICT not on
any of the others).
Rasmus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-06 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-05 21:51 [PATCH v3 00/18] dynamic-debug cleanups, 2 new features Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 01/18] dyndbg-docs: eschew file /full/path query in docs Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 02/18] dyndbg: drop obsolete comment on ddebug_proc_open Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 03/18] dyndbg: raise verbosity needed to enable ddebug_proc_* logging Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 04/18] dyndbg: rename __verbose section to __dyndbg Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 05/18] dyndbg: fix overcounting of ram used by dyndbg Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 06/18] dyndbg: fix a BUG_ON in ddebug_describe_flags Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 07/18] dyndbg: refactor parse_linerange out of ddebug_parse_query Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 08/18] dyndbg: accept 'file foo.c:func1' and 'file foo.c:10-100' Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 09/18] dyndbg: refactor ddebug_read_flags out of ddebug_parse_flags Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 10/18] dyndbg: combine flags & mask into a struct, use that Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 11/18] dyndbg: add filter parameter to ddebug_parse_flags Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 12/18] dyndbg: extend ddebug_parse_flags to accept optional filter-flags Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 13/18] dyndbg: prefer declarative init in caller, to memset in callee Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 14/16] dyndbg: add inverted-flags, implement filtering on flags Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 14/18] dyndbg: add user-flag, negating-flags, and " Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 15/16] dyndbg: allow inverted-flag-chars in modflags Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 15/18] dyndbg: allow negating flag-chars " Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 16/18] dyndbg: make ddebug_tables list LIFO for add/remove_module Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 17/18] dyndbg: rename dynamic_debug to dyndbg Jim Cromie
2019-12-05 22:24 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-12-06 7:49 ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
2019-12-06 17:33 ` jim.cromie
2019-12-05 21:51 ` [PATCH 18/18] dyndbg-docs: normalize comments in examples Jim Cromie
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