Re: [RFC][WAS:bcmai][PATCH V2] axi: add AXI bus driver

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 21:46 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/4/8 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>:
> > On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 21:45 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/axi/axi.h b/include/linux/axi/axi.h
> > []
> >> +#define axi_info     pr_info
> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_AXI_DEBUG
> >> +#define axi_debug    pr_debug
> >> +#else
> >> +#define axi_debug    do { } while (0)
> >> +#endif
> >> +#define axi_err              pr_err
> >
> > I think redefining standard functionality like
> > this doesn't gain anything and loses some basic
> > grep capability.
> 
> But on the other hand using:
> pr_info, pr_err, BUT axi_debug
> can easily lead to mistakes.
> 
> Or is this possible to re-define pr_debug locally?

It is, but is that CONFIG_AXI_DEBUG actually
worthwhile?

If you think so, doesn't adding this to the Makefile
give you the same capability?

ccflags-$(CONFIG_CONFIG_AXI_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG