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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:35:51 +0800
From:   taolan <taolan@...wei.com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: hix5hd2: Add some debug enhancement for register
 access


 

-------- Original Message --------
Title: Re: [PATCH] i2c: hix5hd2: Add some debug enhancement for register access
From: wsa@...nel.org
To: taolan@...wei.com; Cc: linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Date: 2022/9/18 04:29
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 12:48:20PM +0000, Tao Lan wrote:
>> From: taolan <taolan@...wei.com>
>>
>> Sometimes, to locate a fault, we need to know how the register is
>> configured and whether the configuration is incorrect. Currently, no
>> better method is available for analysis.
>>
>> This patch tries to solve the problem by naming the registers and
>> printing the accessed values.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: taolan <taolan@...wei.com>
> 
> Such debug helpers are not suitable for upstream because they need quite
> some resources for rare cases...
Yeah, how about writing to proc as an event, or any suggestions?
> 
>> +		pr_notice("write 0x%04x to %s\n", val, g_i2c_reg_name[idx >> 0x2].name);
> 
> ... and using this loglevel you will flood logs of users.
The loglevel can be adjusted to DEBUG level,and this debug can be off by default. is this ok?
> 
> 

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