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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@nokia.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:23:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247790189.27937.74.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970907152054q61c9bf75x836b4b644ec22a00@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 13:54 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Greg KH<greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Minor comment:
> >
> >> +#ifdef DEBUG
> >> +     printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s\n", __func__);
> >> +#endif
> >
> > You should just use 'dev_dbg() for any debugging statments like this.
> > You can turn them on and off dynamically, and you get all of the proper
> > device information as to what is going on automatically.
> >
> > Plus, there's no need for a #ifdef in the code, which is generally
> > frowned apon in .c files.
> >
> 
> We don't have a device in this case, vga arb is more of an abstraction than
> an actual device.
> 
> I suppose if we were feeling crazy we could add a platform device for it.

Then use pr_debug :-)

Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-17  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-14 12:57 [PATCH 0/2] VGA arbiter implementation Tiago Vignatti
2009-07-14 12:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux Tiago Vignatti
2009-07-14 12:57   ` [PATCH 2/2] vga: drops a documentation regarding the VGA arbiter Tiago Vignatti
2009-07-18 11:48     ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-19 18:50       ` Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
2009-07-14 14:35   ` [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux Alan Cox
2009-07-15  4:43     ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16  4:25     ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16  8:48       ` Alan Cox
2009-07-16 10:38         ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16 16:25           ` Jesse Barnes
2009-07-17  0:22           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-17  0:20         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-17  5:00     ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-17  5:12       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-14 16:15   ` Greg KH
2009-07-16  3:54     ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16  4:02       ` Greg KH
2009-07-16  4:06         ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-16  8:41       ` Alan Cox
2009-07-17  0:24         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-17  0:23       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-07-18 11:47   ` Pavel Machek

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