linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/17] staging: gpib: Console messaging cleanup

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Message-ID: <Z7buAACkugsEOa13@egonzo>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:55:28 +0100
From: Dave Penkler <dpenkler@...il.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] staging: gpib: Console messaging cleanup

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 04:48:39PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 12:46:51PM +0100, Dave Penkler wrote:
> > The GPIB drivers printed a lot of spurious console messages. This
> > was linked to the level of code maturity, often using console
> > messages for debug.
> > 
> > This patch set cleans up the console messaging in the spirit of Greg's
> > recommendation: "When drivers are successful, they should be quiet"
> > 
> > All pr_info's have been removed except for one which is in the module
> > init of the common core driver indicating that the GPIB subsystem is
> > initialized.
> > 
> > All dev_info's have been removed or changed to dev_dbg except for the
> > attach and probe messages in the agilent and ni usb drivers. This is
> > to facilitate the creation of config and udev scripts to ensure that a
> > particular usb device is systematically attached to the same gpib
> > device file.
> > 
> > All custom debug and tty logging has been removed or replaced with
> > dev_dbg.
> > 
> > Error messages where the user can figure out what went wrong with
> > errno have also been removed, particularly timeouts and interrupts
> > during reads and writes which can occur quite frequently uneccessarily
> > cluttering up the console log.
> > 
> > The patches are 1 per driver.
> 
> All but 4 of these applied, can you rebase and resend the remaining
> ones?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
Sure, thanks.
(Could only find 3 that were not applied, will send those)
-dave