linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] tty: core: Add tty_debug() for printk(KERN

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Message-ID: <55A34150.1020806@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:40:48 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] tty: core: Add tty_debug() for printk(KERN_DEBUG)
 messages

On 07/13/2015 12:30 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 00:25 -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> On 07/12/2015 11:47 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 22:49 -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>>>> Introduce tty_debug() macro to output uniform debug information for
>>>> tty core debug messages (function name and tty name).
>>> []
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
>>> []
>>>> @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ static void do_tty_hangup(struct work_struct *work)
>>>>  void tty_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
>>>>  {
>>>>  #ifdef TTY_DEBUG_HANGUP
>>>> -	printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s hangup...\n", tty_name(tty));
>>>> +	tty_debug(tty, "\n");
>>>
>>> Why drop the "hangup..." ?
>>
>> tty_debug() prints the function name; in this case, tty_hangup().
> 
> maybe that #ifdef/#endif block could/should be removed

The #ifdef/#endif block is removed in the follow-on patch 3/7;
replaced with tty_debug_hangup().

> and the function tracer used to track this instead.

One of the advantages of the single macro site of tty_debug is that
I can blow in trace_printk() instead when necessary. But still leave
mainline as printk's.

Regards,
Peter Hurley
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