linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] [media] vb2: core: Lower the log level of debug outputs

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Message-ID: <1496900032.1929.9.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:33:52 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
Cc:     Hirokazu Honda <hiroh@...omium.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Pawel Osciak <pawel@...iak.com>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [media] vb2: core: Lower the log level of debug
 outputs

On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 14:24 +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
[]
> > If there automated systems that rely on specific levels, then
> > changing the levels of individual messages could also cause
> > those automated systems to fail.
> 
> Well, that might be true for some of them indeed. I was thinking about
> our use case, which relies on particular numbers to get expected
> verbosity levels not caring about particular messages. I guess the
> break all or none rule is going to apply here, so we should do the
> bitmap conversion indeed. :)
> 
> On the other hand, I think it would be still preferable to do the
> conversion in a separate patch.

Right.  No worries.