Re: [PATCH] ALSA: get rid of CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 08:04 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:54:12 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Joe Perches wrote:
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> > You didn't respond to the first point I raised.  Since these messages
> > are all meant for debugging, there's no point allowing them to have
> > prefixes like KERN_ERR or KERN_INFO.  They should always be printed at
> > the KERN_DEBUG level.  Or did you think this was so obviously true that
> > it didn't require any comment?
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not so straightforward.  Many messages are better
> with KERN_INFO indeed.  In such places, snd_printd() is used rather as
> snd_chattier_printk_with_prefix().

In those cases, it's likely true that most of those
should not be snd_printd but promoted to pr_<level>

> Instead, we tended to put such informational messages as snd_printd(),
> while keeping the driver itself reticent as much as possible for
> "productive" systems.  This style was kept for a while even after
> merged to 2.5 kernels until recently.
>
> Also, some places use KERN_WARNING or KERN_ERR with snd_printd(),
> mostly because they are in the context with CONFIG_SND_DEBUG.
> They can be well pr_warning() or pr_err().

I thought the idea was to rationalize all that with
the new printing styles.  So on the whole, it seems
we are agreeing strongly.