Re: [PATCH 3/5] ide: add a driver-wide debugging macro

[Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:13:06AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 19:23 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h
> > index c161840..b6d714d 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/ide.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/ide.h
> > []
> > +/* DRV_NAME has to be defined in the driver before using the macro below */
> > +#define __ide_debug_log(lvl, fmt, args...)			\
> > +{								\
> > +	if (unlikely(drive->debug_mask & lvl))			\
> > +		printk(KERN_INFO DRV_NAME ": " fmt, ## args);	\
> > +}
> 
> Shouldn't a debug printk use KERN_DEBUG?

Yes, it should. However, i'm going to have to change the default console
loglevel to see those, aka boot with loglevel=7 and there's the possibility of
other debug messages getting in the way too. Instead, the debugging messages
here are enabled only when you do a debug build of the driver _and_ when enable
them through the debug_mask so you get to see debug messages only you're
interested in without changing anything else in the kernel boot.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.