linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] MIPS: signal: Remove unnecessary DEBUG

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:01:05 +0000 (GMT)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
cc:     Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@...ngson.cn>, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] MIPS: signal: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_SIG related
 code

On Sun, 2 Jan 2022, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> > DEBUG_SIG is not defined on MIPS, so DEBUGP() is an empty function.
> > Additionally, it is unacceptable to printk messages in the normal
> > path of signal handling, the system can not work well if DEBUG_SIG
> > is defined, so just remove the related code.
> 
> I like to keep this debug aid for now.

 And it is perhaps worth noting that we have similar developer aids in 
many places across our code base.

  Maciej