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Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:53:21 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: sja1105: Print the reset reason

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 05:53, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:22:00PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > Sometimes it can be quite opaque even for me why the driver decided to
> > reset the switch. So instead of adding dump_stack() calls each time for
> > debugging, just add a reset reason to sja1105_static_config_reload
> > calls which gets printed to the console.
>
> > +int sja1105_static_config_reload(struct sja1105_private *priv,
> > +                              enum sja1105_reset_reason reason)
> >  {
> >       struct ptp_system_timestamp ptp_sts_before;
> >       struct ptp_system_timestamp ptp_sts_after;
> > @@ -1405,6 +1413,10 @@ int sja1105_static_config_reload(struct sja1105_private *priv)
> >  out_unlock_ptp:
> >       mutex_unlock(&priv->ptp_data.lock);
> >
> > +     dev_info(priv->ds->dev,
> > +              "Reset switch and programmed static config. Reason: %s\n",
> > +              sja1105_reset_reasons[reason]);
>
> If this is for debugging, maybe dev_dbg() would be better?
>
>    Andrew

This should not be a debugging print, a reset is an important event in
the life of the switch and I would like the user to be aware of it.
When I said "debugging" I meant "figure out the reason why it needed
to reset this time".

Thanks,
-Vladimir