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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Cc: vivien.didelot@gmail.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add serdes read/write dynamic debug
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 22:09:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200709200949.GA1037260@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200709184318.4192-1-cphealy@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Chris Healy wrote:
> Add deb_dbg print statements in both serdes_read and serdes_write
> functions.

Hi Chris

Why is SERDES access special? Why not all accesses? global1, global2,
global3, port, etc.

As David said, tracepoints are better for this. Take a look at
include/trace/events/mdio.h and drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c as an
example which traces all mdio accesses.

	Andrew

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-09 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-09 18:43 [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add serdes read/write dynamic debug Chris Healy
2020-07-09 19:46 ` David Miller
2020-07-09 20:09 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]

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