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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@redhat.com>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 09:01:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070205140147.GA17286@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070203224349.GA18418@dmt>

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:43:49PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:53:07AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 19:55, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> > > +#define	ENTER()			dprintk(1, "Enter: %s, %s:%i\n", __FUNCTION__, \
> > > +							__FILE__, __LINE__)
> > > +#define	LEAVE()			dprintk(1, "Leave: %s, %s:%i\n", __FUNCTION__, \
> > > +							__FILE__, __LINE__)
> > 
> > As mentioned, these should probably just be removed
> 
> I disagree, entry/exit points have been shown to be useful in practice
> to identify firmware problems on field.

I'm not too fond of the ENTER/LEAVE stuff either.  But, I do sympathize
that they _can_ be useful in certain circumstances/workflows/whatever.

Is there an official "party line" on this documented somewhere
(i.e. CodingStyle or elsewhere)?  A quick search doesn't reveal one
to me.

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-05 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-16 18:55 [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2007-01-16 19:32 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2007-01-16 22:41   ` Dan Williams
2007-01-17  7:52 ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-17 18:42   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-01-17 23:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-18 15:41       ` Dan Williams
2007-01-18 22:40         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-18 22:54           ` Jon Smirl
2007-01-19  3:29             ` Dan Williams
2007-01-19  3:27           ` Dan Williams
2007-01-17 13:11 ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-17 15:01   ` Dan Williams
2007-01-17 15:18     ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-17 17:43       ` Dan Williams
2007-01-17 18:00         ` Dan Williams
2007-01-17 23:09           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-17 23:19             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-18  8:22               ` John W. Linville
2007-01-24 15:26                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-01-24 18:52                   ` Dan Williams
2007-01-24 20:13                     ` John W. Linville
2007-01-18 15:40             ` Dan Williams
2007-01-17 18:01         ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-22 11:26           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-01-22 15:20             ` Jon Smirl
2007-01-23 15:41               ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-23 16:18                 ` Jon Smirl
2007-01-23 16:54                   ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-23 17:14                     ` Jon Smirl
2007-01-23 17:38                       ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-23 17:59                       ` Dan Williams
2007-01-23 18:23                         ` Jon Smirl
2007-01-23 18:30                         ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-23 19:01                           ` Jon Smirl
2007-01-23 19:13                           ` Johannes Berg
2007-01-22 11:28           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-01-17 18:07         ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-18 15:43           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-01-17 15:43     ` Jiri Benc
2007-01-18 15:02       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-01-27  1:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-03 22:43   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-02-05 14:01     ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-02-05 15:12       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-05 15:42       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-06 22:42     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2007-02-10 14:05   ` Marcelo Tosatti
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-20 20:15 Marcelo Tosatti
2007-01-20 20:15 Marcelo Tosatti
2007-02-01  0:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti

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