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

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Message-ID: <55C25701.8030305@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:33:37 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	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)
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On 07/23/2015 09:35 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 10:49:08PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> Introduce tty_debug() macro to output uniform debug information for
>> tty core debug messages (function name and tty name).
>>
>> Note: printk(KERN_DEBUG) is retained here over pr_debug() since
>> messages can be enabled in non-DEBUG builds.
> 
> But pr_debug() is the "standard" way to enable/disable debugging
> messages, so I'd really like to see that be used here.

Ok, I can do that; I'll roll Joe's suggestions in at that time.

> Even better, this is a tty device, so it should be using dev_dbg(),
> which gives us tons of good information built-in for the tty and can
> properly be parsed by userspace tools to know exactly what device caused
> what message at what point in time.
> 
> So I'll take this for now, but moving it to use dev_dbg() would be best
> eventually.

The issue with using dev_dbg is that (SysV) ptys are not devices. However,
if you'd prefer, I could rework this macro to format output like dev_dbg;
ie., <driver> <tty name>: <fmt>

Regards,
Peter Hurley
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