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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
To: Tao Lan <taolan@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: hix5hd2: Add some debug enhancement for register access
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:29:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YyYuK1UD7CpZQoFr@shikoro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220913124820.48715-1-taolan@huawei.com>

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On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 12:48:20PM +0000, Tao Lan wrote:
> From: taolan <taolan@huawei.com>
> 
> Sometimes, to locate a fault, we need to know how the register is
> configured and whether the configuration is incorrect. Currently, no
> better method is available for analysis.
> 
> This patch tries to solve the problem by naming the registers and
> printing the accessed values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: taolan <taolan@huawei.com>

Such debug helpers are not suitable for upstream because they need quite
some resources for rare cases...

> +		pr_notice("write 0x%04x to %s\n", val, g_i2c_reg_name[idx >> 0x2].name);

... and using this loglevel you will flood logs of users.



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  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-17 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-13 12:48 [PATCH] i2c: hix5hd2: Add some debug enhancement for register access Tao Lan
2022-09-17 20:29 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2022-09-20  7:35   ` taolan

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