linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] console: Replace #if 1 with a bool to ignore

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Message-id: <2838511.fdTZ0RgijS@amdc3058>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:18:02 +0200
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] console: Replace #if 1 with a bool to ignore

On Tuesday, July 24, 2018 06:13:19 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday, July 12, 2018 09:29:38 AM Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > 
> > There's been discussion on the fb list about the addition of
> > WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() inside the fb code. The complaint is that when
> > the fb module is loaded with lockless_register_fb the console lock is
> > not taken for debugging reasons. With the addition of
> > WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCK() within the fb code, this causes the console to
> > fill up with warnings when trying to debug the fb driver.
> > 
> > There's also a #if 1 that enables the warning which was added before
> > git history, and we look down on constant #if's in the kernel nowadays
> > anyway.
> > 
> > Remove the #if 1 and add a ignore_console_lock_warning boolean that can
> > be set by drivers to ignore the warning in order to do debugging.
> > 
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/717e6337-e7a6-7a92-1c1b-8929a25696b5@suse.de
> > Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
> > Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> Patch queued for 4.19, thanks.

Dequeued, I've just noticed a newer patch from Thomas for this issue
(I plan to apply it later this week).

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics