linux-kernel - Re: more than 50 percent of dmesg belongs only to PCI and USB

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Message-Id: <1237159729.8619.7.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:28:49 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: more than 50 percent of dmesg belongs only to PCI and USB

On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 13:11 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> Can we make dmesg little bit better and remove some noise and put these
> debug messages on /sys/kernel/debug/ :

I think they should just be KERN_DEBUG, that way they won't be displayed
to most users, except people who want to see them.

The problem is it's easier to write:

  dev_info(&dev->dev, "transparent bridge\n");

than:

  dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, &dev->dev, "transparent bridge\n");

and, dev_dbg() does not do what you want in this case.


What about:

#define dev_quietly(dev, format, arg...)            \
        dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG , dev , format , ## arg)

:)

cheers

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