Re: [PATCH] drm/edid: Don't repeatedly log hex dumps of bad EDIDs by default

[Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Andy Walls wrote:
> On my system, every 10 seconds drm_edid_block_valid() gets called 4
> times by radeon_dvi_detect().  This results in 4 instances of a
> multi-line hex dump of the same EDID (non-)data being logged every 10
> seconds.
> 
> Silence the hex dump from drm_edid_block_valid() unless a drm_debug
> module parameter flag is set.
> 
> Signed-of-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
> index dce5c4a..33a748c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
> @@ -173,9 +173,12 @@ drm_edid_block_valid(u8 *raw_edid)
>  
>  bad:
>         if (raw_edid) {
> -               DRM_ERROR("Raw EDID:\n");
> -               print_hex_dump_bytes(KERN_ERR, DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, raw_edid, EDID_LENGTH);
> -               printk("\n");
> +               DRM_DEBUG("Raw EDID:\n");
> +               if (drm_debug & DRM_UT_CORE) {
> +                       print_hex_dump_bytes(KERN_ERR, DUMP_PREFIX_NONE,
> +                                            raw_edid, EDID_LENGTH);
> +                       printk("\n");
> +               }
>         }
>         return 0;
>  }
> 

Why not print it only once on original error level?
Something like:
static bool printed = false;
if (!printed) {
	...
	printed = true;
}

It has the same effect for you (no spamming by default) and it's still provide some information.

Marcin