Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:17:11 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Another libata TODO item |
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Difficulty: beginner / intermediate
Modern network drivers have a per-NIC list of debugging messages that can be enabled/disabled at runtime, implemented as a bitmask named 'msg_enable' in each driver. VERY useful for tracing specific events during debugging. grep for 'msg_enable', 'netif_msg_', and 'NETIF_MSG_'.
To make libata debugging easier and more fine-grained, we should convert DPRINTK/VPRINTK calls in libata to code that looks like
if (ata_msg_xxx(ap->msg_enable)) printk(...) The task involves:
* reviewing net driver msg_enable usage * reviewing original netif_msg documentation by Donald Becker, at (scroll down) http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/vortex/2001-November/001426.html
* designing a sliding scale of ever-more-verbose classes of messages, for libata and libata drivers * design a method by which userspace may change the per-port msg_enable variable in libata
* implement the sliding scale as ATA_MSG_xxx / ata_msg_xxx() * add msg_enable to struct ata_port * implement method of setting ap->msg_enable via userspace * convert messages in libata-core/libata-scsi * convert messages in each driver * add 'debug' module option to each driver, in a manner that duplicates net driver module options * test!
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