linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cdrom: make debug logging rely on pr

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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:51:53 +0100
From:   Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@...meeyes.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cdrom: make debug logging rely on pr_debug and debugfs only.

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 11:13 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > -     cd_dbg(CD_OPEN, "entering register_cdrom\n");
> > +     pr_debug("entering register_cdrom\n");
>
> debut output for function tracing can also be removed
> and ftrace used instead.

Oh, nice! I have never had to go this deep into a driver before, so
I'm pretty much an ftrace noob, but that pointer actually made the
whole debugging _much_ easier, too!

I'll send an updated patch series now that (thanks to that!) I managed
to make the device I'm fighting with work.