Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2010 01:19:06 +1000 (EST) | From | Finn Thain <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mac8390: change an error return code and some cleanup, take 4 |
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On Mon, 31 May 2010, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> > Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:08:13 -0700 > > > There are many uses of KERN_DEBUG that are reasonable to have always > > enabled. > > Doubtful. > > pr_debug() makes a ton of sense as currently implemented. It's for > messages that we want both compile time and run-time control over. > > The case we have here in mac8390 seems like it should stay as pr_info(). > Because 1) it's already controlled by a run-time knob so controlling it > even further is confusing and 2) the message is "informative", it lets > the user know a feature cannot be enabled, thus pr_info().
If that is true in general, then ei_debug itself becomes questionable.
In the case of mac8390 at least, I'm certainly leaning toward changing the pr_info (conditional on ei_debug) to pr_debug (unconditional).
Finn
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