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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] mac80211: clean up debugging
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:40:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1340466044.7758.4.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340456697.4636.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>

On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 15:04 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 01:02 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > I think all the Kconfig debugging options aren't
> > particularly useful.
> > 
> > I think you should use a level/mask module debug
> > variable to enable these instead of appearing to try
> > to minimize the size of the objects via individual
> > Kconfig options.
> > 
> > I think it'd be better to enable them all the time
> > (or not at all when !DEBUG) and select them for output
> > via the debug level.
> 
> I agree, but I don't want to switch twice. Once pr_debug() has dynamic
> sub-selector capabilities, I'll use it here.
> 
> FWIW, I would definitely prefer named rather than bitmap selectors :-)

(Added Jason and Jim)

Given it's a debug-only facility, I think bitmap
selectors sufficient, Maybe adding an external
utility to map names to bits would be enough to
not need that feature in the kernel.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-23 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-22 17:18 [PATCH v2 0/6] mac80211 debugging Johannes Berg
2012-06-22 17:18 ` [PATCH 1/6] mac80211: remove TKIP debug Johannes Berg
2012-06-22 17:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] mac80211: two small verbose debug cleanups Johannes Berg
2012-06-22 17:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] mac80211: pass sdata to some RX functions Johannes Berg
2012-06-22 17:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] mac80211: clean up debugging Johannes Berg
2012-06-23  8:02   ` Joe Perches
2012-06-23 13:04     ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-23 15:40       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-06-24  9:30         ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-25 21:29           ` Jason Baron
2012-06-26  5:23             ` Joe Perches
2012-06-23 16:03   ` Joe Perches
2012-06-22 17:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] mac80211: rename driver-trace file Johannes Berg
2012-06-22 17:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] mac80211: trace debug messages Johannes Berg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-22 13:14 mac80211 logging/tracing Johannes Berg
2012-06-22 13:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] mac80211: clean up debugging Johannes Berg
2012-06-22 14:37   ` Joe Perches
2012-06-22 14:43     ` Johannes Berg
2012-06-22 14:49       ` Joe Perches

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