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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1305301411370.1137-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:14:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Improving or replacing snd_printk() On Wed, 29 May 2013, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 15:27 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > Has there been any thought of improving snd_printk(), or even better, > > changing the call sites to use the dev_*() routines instead? > > Perhaps better would be to add and use some combination of > type specific logging message functions/macros like: > > void snd_<level>(const struct snd_device *dev, const char *fmt, ...) > void snd_card_<level>(const struct snd_card *card, const char *fmt, ...) > void snd_ac97_<level>(const struct snd_ac97 *ac97, const char *fmt, ...) > > allowing NULL as the type pointer when necessary/appropriate. Almost anything would be better than the current situation. The only enhancement provided by CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is to print the filename and line number, which is relatively unhelpful (unless there are multiple copies of the same message in several places). Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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