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From: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
To: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>,
	Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
	"supporter:QLOGIC QLGE 10Gb ETHERNET DRIVER" 
	<GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"open list:QLOGIC QLGE 10Gb ETHERNET DRIVER"
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/6] staging: qlge: clean up debugging code in the QL_ALL_DUMP ifdef land
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:01:26 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201010080126.GC14495@f3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201008115808.91850-6-coiby.xu@gmail.com>

On 2020-10-08 19:58 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
> The debugging code in the following ifdef land
>  - QL_ALL_DUMP
>  - QL_REG_DUMP
>  - QL_DEV_DUMP
>  - QL_CB_DUMP
>  - QL_IB_DUMP
>  - QL_OB_DUMP
> 
> becomes unnecessary because,
>  - Device status and general registers can be obtained by ethtool.
>  - Coredump can be done via devlink health reporter.
>  - Structure related to the hardware (struct ql_adapter) can be obtained
>    by crash or drgn.
> 
> Suggested-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h         |  82 ----
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c     | 688 ----------------------------
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c |   2 -
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c    |   7 +-

Please also update drivers/staging/qlge/TODO accordingly. There is still
a lot of debugging code IMO (the netif_printk statements - kernel
tracing can be used instead of those) but this patch is a substantial
improvement.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-10  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20201008115808.91850-1-coiby.xu@gmail.com>
2020-10-08 11:58 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] staging: qlge: Initialize devlink health dump framework for the dlge driver Coiby Xu
2020-10-08 12:22   ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-10-08 12:54     ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-12  8:08     ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-08 13:31   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-10-09  0:12     ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-08 17:45   ` kernel test robot
2020-10-10  7:35   ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-10-10 10:24     ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-10 13:48       ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-10-12 11:24         ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-13  0:37           ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-10-15  3:37             ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-15 11:06               ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-10-16 23:08                 ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-08 11:58 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] staging: qlge: coredump via devlink health reporter Coiby Xu
2020-10-08 13:39   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-10-09  0:14     ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-10  7:48   ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-10-10 10:02     ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-10 13:22       ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-10-12 11:51         ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-13  1:18           ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-10-08 11:58 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] staging: qlge: support force_coredump option for devlink health dump Coiby Xu
2020-10-08 11:58 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] staging: qlge: remove mpi_core_to_log which sends coredump to the kernel ring buffer Coiby Xu
2020-10-08 11:58 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] staging: qlge: clean up debugging code in the QL_ALL_DUMP ifdef land Coiby Xu
2020-10-10  8:01   ` Benjamin Poirier [this message]
2020-10-10 10:00     ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-10 13:40       ` Benjamin Poirier
2020-10-12 11:29         ` Coiby Xu
2020-10-08 11:58 ` [PATCH v1 6/6] staging: qlge: add documentation for debugging qlge Coiby Xu

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