From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ath10k: make firmware text debug messages more verbose.
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:00:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54218B29.40806@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjdqcwef.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
On 09/23/2014 06:13 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> greearb@candelatech.com writes:
>
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> There are not many of these messages producted by the
>> firmware, but they are generally fairly useful, so print
>> them at info level.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
>> index cd60940..6be62ac 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
>> @@ -2050,7 +2050,7 @@ static void ath10k_wmi_event_debug_print(struct ath10k *ar,
>> /* the last byte is always reserved for the null character */
>> buf[i] = '\0';
>>
>> - ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_WMI, "wmi event debug print '%s'\n", buf);
>> + ath10k_info(ar, "wmi event debug print '%s'\n", buf);
>
> This does not bring any extra value to normal users, it's only useful to
> firmware engineers. That's why it needs to stay as a debug message.
> Maybe we should add a new debug level just for these events, would that
> help?
It will help users trying to tune the maximum resource combinations (vdevs + peers + tx-descriptors + skid-len, etc)
because my firmware prints out remaining RAM/IRAM after booting up.
But, a separate debug flag would be fine.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 20:54 [PATCH 1/2] ath10k: make firmware text debug messages more verbose greearb
2014-09-22 20:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] ath10k: apply chainmask settings to vdev on creation greearb
2014-09-23 8:53 ` Michal Kazior
2014-09-23 16:57 ` Ben Greear
2014-09-23 13:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] ath10k: make firmware text debug messages more verbose Kalle Valo
2014-09-23 15:00 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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