Re: [PATCH] staging: brcmfmac: Consolidate debugging macros

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 08/26/2011 11:19 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> W dniu 26 sierpnia 2011 11:02 użytkownik Joe Perches<joe@perches.com>  napisał:
>> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:55 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> 2011/8/25 Joe Perches<joe@perches.com>:
>>>> Convert multiple BRCMF_<debug_level>  macros to a single
>>>> brcmf_dbg(level, fmt, ...) macro.
>>> I'm not sure if that "_dbg" suffix is a really good choice. You use
>>> "_dbg" for all the kinds of messages, while "DEBUG" is already one
>>> kind of messages.
>> No, not really.  These _are_ debugging uses.
>>
>> The #include is called dhd_dbg.h and
>> the whole block is guarded by
>>
>> #if defined(BCMDBG)
>>
>>> We have also other types like EMERG, ALERT, CRIT,
>>> ERR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO and DEBUG.
>> Except for the last, those aren't debugging uses,
>> these are.
> It makes sense, maybe some messages should be just always printed. It
> seems some of they may be important for common-user having problem
> with his card. Just few random ones:
> brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "device attach failed\n");
> brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "Failed to enable F1 Err: 0x%08x\n", err_ret);
> brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "MACEVENT: %s [unsupported version -->  brcmf
> version:%d dongle version:%d]\n",
> brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "mismatched OUI, bailing\n");
> brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "brcmf_net_attach failed, err %d\n",
> brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "failed to bring up cfg80211\n");
> brcmf_dbg(ERROR, "HT Avail request error: %d\n", err);

Hi Rafał,

The feedback from Greg was that no user would be interested in it so we 
cleaned it up and put it under Kconfig option.

Gr. AvS

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