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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drm/edid: Don't repeatedly log hex dumps of bad EDIDs by default
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2010/9/18 Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Andy Walls wrote:
>> On my system, every 10 seconds drm_edid_block_valid() gets called 4
>> times by radeon_dvi_detect().  This results in 4 instances of a
>> multi-line hex dump of the same EDID (non-)data being logged every 10
>> seconds.
>>
>> Silence the hex dump from drm_edid_block_valid() unless a drm_debug
>> module parameter flag is set.
>>
>> Signed-of-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
>> index dce5c4a..33a748c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
>> @@ -173,9 +173,12 @@ drm_edid_block_valid(u8 *raw_edid)
>>
>>  bad:
>>         if (raw_edid) {
>> -               DRM_ERROR("Raw EDID:\n");
>> -               print_hex_dump_bytes(KERN_ERR, DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, raw_edid, EDID_LENGTH);
>> -               printk("\n");
>> +               DRM_DEBUG("Raw EDID:\n");
>> +               if (drm_debug & DRM_UT_CORE) {
>> +                       print_hex_dump_bytes(KERN_ERR, DUMP_PREFIX_NONE,
>> +                                            raw_edid, EDID_LENGTH);
>> +                       printk("\n");
>> +               }
>>         }
>>         return 0;
>>  }
>>
>
> Why not print it only once on original error level?
> Something like:
> static bool printed = false;
> if (!printed) {
>        ...
>        printed = true;
> }
>
> It has the same effect for you (no spamming by default) and it's still provide some information.

Should be per-monitor or per-output I think.

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Rafał
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