From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: joe@perches.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] net: Use net_<level>_ratelimit
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 20:29:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337106548.15553.8.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120515.142405.633851408201128056.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 14:24 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > But don't you have to do something in the sources to actually get
> > dynamic_debug enabled? I'm concerned this will make mac80211 debugging
> > inconsistent - the normal bits are just printk() still, and the
> > rate-limited bits need some special enabling? That seems odd.
>
> You can turn them all off or on with a simple flip of a boolean switch
> at run-time. Or, alternatively, you can turn them on or off in a
> finer grained manner with other run-time facilities.
>
> There should be a transition away from explicit KERN_DEBUG.
I support that, but I think it's confusing to have things mixed. Also,
we seem to have printk_ratelimit(), so I'd prefer to have that used in
mac80211 instead until everything there moves over to newer facilities.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-15 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-14 7:56 [RFC net-next 0/2] net: Use net_<level>_ratelimit Joe Perches
2012-05-14 7:56 ` [RFC net-next 2/2] net: Convert net_ratelimit uses to net_<level>_ratelimited Joe Perches
2012-05-15 17:45 ` [RFC net-next 0/2] net: Use net_<level>_ratelimit David Miller
2012-05-15 17:59 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-15 18:03 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-15 18:13 ` David Miller
2012-05-15 18:21 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-15 18:24 ` David Miller
2012-05-15 18:29 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-05-15 18:30 ` David Miller
2012-05-15 21:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] net: mac80211: Neaten debugging Joe Perches
2012-05-15 21:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: mac80211: Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug Joe Perches
2012-05-15 21:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: mac80211: Add and use ht_vdbg debugging macro Joe Perches
2012-05-15 21:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: mac80211: Add and use ibss_vdbg " Joe Perches
2012-05-16 5:23 ` [PATCH 0/3] net: mac80211: Neaten debugging David Miller
2012-05-16 7:59 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-16 15:22 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-16 15:30 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-16 15:43 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-16 15:56 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-15 18:14 ` [RFC net-next 0/2] net: Use net_<level>_ratelimit David Miller
2012-05-15 18:27 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-15 18:29 ` David Miller
2012-05-15 18:40 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-15 18:51 ` David Miller
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