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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] brcmfmac: error messages should not be suppressed
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
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On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 15:25 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> The call to brcmf_dbg(ERROR, ...) only resulted in a log message
> when compiled with -DDEBUG. Error messages are valuable for resolving
> issues so this patch replaces it with brcmf_err(...) so they always
> end up in the log.

Seems like a good idea but you also
removed the net_ratelimit() which doesn't.

> @@ -33,22 +32,15 @@
>  #define BRCMF_FIL_VAL	0x1000
>  #define BRCMF_USB_VAL	0x2000
>  
> +/* error messages are always logged */
> +#define brcmf_err(fmt, ...)	pr_err("%s: " fmt, __func__, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> +
>  #if defined(DEBUG)
>  
> -#define brcmf_dbg(level, fmt, ...)					\
> -do {									\
> -	if (BRCMF_ERROR_VAL == BRCMF_##level##_VAL) {			\
> -		if (brcmf_msg_level & BRCMF_##level##_VAL) {		\
> -			if (net_ratelimit())				\
> -				pr_debug("%s: " fmt,			\
> -					 __func__, ##__VA_ARGS__);	\
> -		}							\
> -	} else {							\
> -		if (brcmf_msg_level & BRCMF_##level##_VAL) {		\
> -			pr_debug("%s: " fmt,				\
> -				 __func__, ##__VA_ARGS__);		\
> -		}							\
> -	}								\
> +#define brcmf_dbg(level, fmt, ...)				\
> +do {								\
> +	if (brcmf_msg_level & BRCMF_##level##_VAL)		\
> +		pr_debug("%s: " fmt, __func__, ##__VA_ARGS__);	\
>  } while (0)