linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: brcmfmac: Consolidate debugging macros

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:02:37 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Cc:	Henry Ptasinski <henryp@...adcom.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Brett Rudley <brudley@...adcom.com>,
	Arend Van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Roland Vossen <rvossen@...adcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kan Yan <kanyan@...adcom.com>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: brcmfmac: Consolidate debugging macros

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:55 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/8/25 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>:
> > Convert multiple BRCMF_<debug_level> macros to a single
> > brcmf_dbg(level, fmt, ...) macro.
> I'm not sure if that "_dbg" suffix is a really good choice. You use
> "_dbg" for all the kinds of messages, while "DEBUG" is already one
> kind of messages.

No, not really.  These _are_ debugging uses.

The #include is called dhd_dbg.h and
the whole block is guarded by

#if defined(BCMDBG)

> We have also other types like EMERG, ALERT, CRIT,
> ERR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO and DEBUG.

Except for the last, those aren't debugging uses,
these are.



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