Re: [PATCH] staging: ozwpan: Convert printk to dev_dbg()

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 10:38 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:29:50AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > a long needed extension to dev_dbg is to enable classes
> > of messages by level or mask.
> > 
> > There are many existing macros like
> > 
> > #define module_dbg(level, fmt, ...)
> > do {
> > 	if (level >= some_module_var)
> > 		debug_something(...);
> > } while (0)
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > #define module_dbg(mask, fmt, ...)
> > do {
> > 	if (mask & some_module_var)
> > 		debug_something(...)
> > } while (0)
> > 
> > It'd be nice to consolidate those in dev_dbg
> 
> I'd almost recommend that all of them just be removed, because most of
> them were only used for debugging the code the first time it was
> developed, right?  Only for very limited usages would this type of thing
> be needed.

Maybe, though that's hard to know with certainty.
How often module options are used isn't easy to find out.

These forms are sometimes used to reduce object size.