From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, peter@stuge.se,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH wireless-next] ath: Rename ath_print to ath_debug
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:37:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF65DB9.3050007@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291213675.1845.12.camel@Joe-Laptop>
On 2010-12-01 3:27 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 23:56 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>> > Poor function naming is just that.
>> > It reduces readability and the uses are counter expectation.
>> The name is perfect, we use it to print anything, even non-debugging stuff.
>
> 'fraid not.
>
> ath/debug.h
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG
> void ath_print(struct ath_common *common, int dbg_mask, const char *fmt, ...)
> __attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)));
> #else
> static inline void __attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)))
> ath_print(struct ath_common *common, int dbg_mask, const char *fmt, ...)
> {
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG */
Now we're getting closer to something worth fixing. IMHO we should
change the code so that ath_print(common, ATH_DBG_FATAL, ...) prints
something even with CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG unset. To get this done, some
renaming would make sense here.
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-01 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-28 23:53 [PATCH wireless-next] ath: Rename ath_print to ath_debug Joe Perches
2010-11-29 2:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <20101129060732.5130.qmail@stuge.se>
2010-11-29 22:41 ` [ath9k-devel] " Felix Fietkau
2010-11-29 22:42 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-30 1:39 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-30 2:43 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-11-30 20:19 ` Joe Perches
2010-12-01 7:56 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-01 7:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-01 14:27 ` Joe Perches
2010-12-01 14:37 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2010-12-01 17:17 ` Joe Perches
2010-12-01 17:28 ` Joe Perches
2010-12-01 17:44 ` [PATCH] ath: Add and use ath_printk and ath_<level> Joe Perches
2010-12-01 18:05 ` [PATCH V2] " Joe Perches
2010-12-01 19:08 ` [PATCH] ath: Convert ath_print(.., ATH_DBG_FATAL to ath_err Joe Perches
2010-12-01 17:37 ` [PATCH wireless-next] MAINTAINERS: Add ATH GENERIC UTILITIES Joe Perches
2010-12-01 19:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-01 20:16 ` Joe Perches
2010-12-01 20:18 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-01 20:41 ` [ath9k-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-12-02 0:48 ` Joe Perches
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