From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: more than 50 percent of dmesg belongs only to PCI and USB
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:39:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090316003932.GB15098@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237159729.8619.7.camel@localhost>
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:28:49AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 13:11 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > Can we make dmesg little bit better and remove some noise and put these
> > debug messages on /sys/kernel/debug/ :
>
> I think they should just be KERN_DEBUG, that way they won't be displayed
> to most users, except people who want to see them.
>
> The problem is it's easier to write:
>
> dev_info(&dev->dev, "transparent bridge\n");
>
> than:
>
> dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, &dev->dev, "transparent bridge\n");
>
> and, dev_dbg() does not do what you want in this case.
Why not? It prints it out if you enable the config option at run-time,
which is what you want.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-16 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-14 7:41 more than 50 percent of dmesg belongs only to PCI and USB Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-14 15:41 ` Greg KH
2009-03-15 23:28 ` Michael Ellerman
2009-03-16 0:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-03-16 0:59 ` Michael Ellerman
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