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Message-Id: <1247790189.27937.74.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:23:09 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@...ia.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vga: implements VGA arbitration on Linux

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 13:54 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Greg KH<greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> > Minor comment:
> >
> >> +#ifdef DEBUG
> >> +     printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s\n", __func__);
> >> +#endif
> >
> > You should just use 'dev_dbg() for any debugging statments like this.
> > You can turn them on and off dynamically, and you get all of the proper
> > device information as to what is going on automatically.
> >
> > Plus, there's no need for a #ifdef in the code, which is generally
> > frowned apon in .c files.
> >
> 
> We don't have a device in this case, vga arb is more of an abstraction than
> an actual device.
> 
> I suppose if we were feeling crazy we could add a platform device for it.

Then use pr_debug :-)

Ben.


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