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DateTue, 28 Feb 2006 07:00:14 -0500
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/13] ATA ACPI: debugging infrastructure
Pavel Machek wrote:
> I hate to see debugging infrastructure like this. We already have it
> in ACPI and it is nasty/useless. It hides serious errors during normal
> run, while if you turn on the debugging, it floods logs so that
> it is unusable, too. I end up having to replace dprintks with
> printks... nasty.

Then you clearly don't understand what the code is doing.  Fine-grained 
message selection allows one to turn on only the messages needed, and 
only for the controller desired.  Otherwise, it is nearly impossible to 
debug one SATA controller while booting off another.

	Jeff


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