Re: [PATCH 0/5] ide debugging macros

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sunday 17 August 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> here's something i've been wanting to do for a long time: debugging macros. The
> reason for it is that i got tired of adding debug printk's everytime i'm testing
> something so here we go.
> 
> The debugging macro is similar to the old ones but is one for all drivers
> (currently only ide-floppy), is nice on branch prediction and is controlled by a
> drive->debug_mask switch which is a module parameter and as such can be set at
> module load time, of course. I've been thinking of adding also a sysfs attribute
> too but can't seem to find quite the justification for it so no sysfs for now :)

if you look closely you should already find it :)

[ module parameters are exported through sysfs and it uses 0644 mask ]

> In addition, one can still optimize away all the debug calls in the old manner
> and i'm sure those will be removed completely too when ide generic conversion is
> done.
> 
> Please tell me what you think, what can be changed/improved and after we've
> figured out the details I'll do the other drivers too.

Looks pretty good to me (after quick look) and I applied to pata tree.

PS I wonder whether we may also want to have global debug_mask for core code
messages ('drive' is not always available) in the longer-term.  Or maybe even
only global debug_mask for both core code and driver messages?

Thanks,
Bart