From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Kicinski Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: add driver for Netronome NFP4000/NFP6000 NIC VFs Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:53:05 +0000 Message-ID: <20151124195305.61524d83@jkicinski-Precision-T1700> References: <20151030.192701.377276134095637949.davem@davemloft.net> <1448276697-2508-1-git-send-email-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> <1448276697-2508-3-git-send-email-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> <20151124.142531.1333743019199613941.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, simon.horman@netronome.com, rolf.neugebauer@netronome.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com ([74.125.82.48]:35593 "EHLO mail-wm0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753395AbbKXTxK (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:53:10 -0500 Received: by wmuu63 with SMTP id u63so111222555wmu.0 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:53:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20151124.142531.1333743019199613941.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:25:31 -0500 (EST), David Miller wrote: > From: Jakub Kicinski > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:04:57 +0000 > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_NFP_NET_DEBUG > > +#define DEBUG > > +#endif > > Do not design ad-hoc debug logging facilities locally in your driver, > and instead use the existing tree wide facilities as they were designed > to be used so that any user can get debugging logs simply by turning it > on at run time rather than having the change magic config options in > their kernel. True. I picked this habit up from the rt2x00 driver long time ago. Now I see nobody else is doing such things...