netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 8/8] net: dsa: rtl8366: Drop and depromote pointless prints

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Message-ID: <20210913173810.lrzuzan5vp7l7b4u@skbuf>
Date:   Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:38:10 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauri Sandberg <sandberg@...lfence.com>,
        Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 8/8] net: dsa: rtl8366: Drop and depromote
 pointless prints

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:35:53AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 9/13/2021 7:43 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > We don't need a message for every VLAN association, dbg
> > is fine. The message about adding the DSA or CPU
> > port to a VLAN is directly misleading, this is perfectly
> > fine.
> > 
> > Cc: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
> > Cc: Mauri Sandberg <sandberg@...lfence.com>
> > Cc: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>
> > Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> > Cc: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> 
> Maybe at some point we should think about moving that kind of debugging
> messages towards the DSA core, and just leave drivers with debug prints that
> track an internal state not visible to the DSA framework.

I have some trace points on the bridge driver and in DSA for FDB
entries, maybe something along those lines?