netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: add driver for Netronome NFP4000/NFP6000 NIC VFs

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Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:53:05 +0000
From:	Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, simon.horman@...ronome.com,
	rolf.neugebauer@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: add driver for Netronome
 NFP4000/NFP6000 NIC VFs

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:25:31 -0500 (EST), David Miller wrote:
> From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:04:57 +0000
> 
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_NFP_NET_DEBUG
> > +#define DEBUG
> > +#endif
> 
> Do not design ad-hoc debug logging facilities locally in your driver,
> and instead use the existing tree wide facilities as they were designed
> to be used so that any user can get debugging logs simply by turning it
> on at run time rather than having the change magic config options in
> their kernel.

True.  I picked this habit up from the rt2x00 driver long time ago.
Now I see nobody else is doing such things...
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