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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:40:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107301040.47664.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311888593.10042.36.camel@Joe-Laptop>

On Thursday 28 July 2011, Joe Perches wrote:
> Perhaps add some logging helpers to the .h?
> 
> #define wdd_emerg(wd, fmt, ...)                                 \
>         pr_emerg("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> #define wdd_crit(wd, fmt, ...)                                  \
>         pr_crit("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> #define wdd_alert(wd, fmt, ...)                                 \
>         pr_alert("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> #define wdd_err(wd, fmt, ...)                                   \
>         pr_err("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> #define wdd_notice(wd, fmt, ...)                                \
>         pr_notice("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> #define wdd_warn(wd, fmt, ...)                                  \
>         pr_warn("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> #define wdd_info(wd, fmt, ...)                                  \
>         pr_info("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> #define wdd_dbg(wd, fmt, ...)                                   \
>         pr_debug("%s: " fmt, (wd)->info->identity, ##__VA_ARGS__)

No, please don't. Adding driver-specific debugging macros tends to confuse
more than it helps, IMHO.

> > +     err = misc_register(&watchdog_miscdev);
> > +     if (err != 0) {
> > +             pr_err("%s: cannot register miscdev on minor=%d (err=%d).\n",
> > +                     watchdog->info->identity, WATCHDOG_MINOR, err);
> 
>                 wdd_err(watchdog, "cannot register watchdog on minor %d, err: %d\n",
>                         WATCHDOG_MINOR, err);

I think changing them could be useful, but I'd rather change them to
dev_err etc and pass the underlying device.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-30  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-11 13:50 [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 14:19 ` [PATCH 01/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 14:21   ` [PATCH 02/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic ioctl functionality Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 21:32     ` Wolfram Sang
2011-07-11 14:21   ` [PATCH 03/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 14:22   ` [PATCH 04/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 21:32     ` Wolfram Sang
2011-07-22 19:26       ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 14:22   ` [PATCH 05/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 21:34     ` Wolfram Sang
2011-07-11 14:22   ` [PATCH 06/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add Magic Close feature Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 21:35     ` Wolfram Sang
2011-07-11 14:23   ` [PATCH 07/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add nowayout feature Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 14:23   ` [PATCH 09/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add ioctl call Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 14:24   ` [PATCH 08/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add parent device Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 14:24   ` [PATCH 10/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add minimum and max timeout Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 14:24   ` [PATCH 11/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Remove llseek Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 21:35     ` Wolfram Sang
2011-07-11 21:48       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-11 21:32   ` [PATCH 01/11] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework Wolfram Sang
2011-07-11 23:02     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-07-22 19:24     ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 23:00   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-07-11 23:53     ` Mark Brown
2011-07-12  9:24     ` Alan Cox
2011-07-22 19:32     ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-24  3:58       ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-07-27 20:24         ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-29  9:24           ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-08-04 20:25             ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-11 21:31 ` [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Wolfram Sang
2011-07-22 19:18   ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-22 19:38     ` Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:15       ` [PATCH 0/9 v4] " Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16         ` [PATCH 1/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16           ` [PATCH 2/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic ioctl functionality Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16           ` [PATCH 3/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16           ` [PATCH 4/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16           ` [PATCH 5/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16           ` [PATCH 6/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add Magic Close feature Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16           ` [PATCH 7/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add nowayout feature Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16           ` [PATCH 8/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add ioctl call Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-27 20:16           ` [PATCH 9/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add minimum and max timeout Wim Van Sebroeck
2011-07-28 21:29           ` [PATCH 1/9] watchdog: WatchDog Timer Driver Core - Add basic framework Joe Perches
2011-07-30  8:40             ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-07-12 18:43 ` [PATCH 0/11 v3] Generic Watchdog Timer Driver Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-22 20:48 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-07-22 21:31   ` Wim Van Sebroeck

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