On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 01:43:53PM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote: > > > > > My bigger issue with this is that this macro is crazy. Why do you need > > > > debugging here at all for this type of thing? That's what ftrace is > > > > for, do not sprinkle code with "we got this return value from here!" all > > > > over the place like what this does. > > > > > > We are not sprinkling the code all over the place with any new logs, they > > > exist already in the SoundWire code and this patch helps filter them out. > > > See e.g. patch 2/2 > > > > > > - dev_err(&slave->dev, > > > - "Clk Stop type =%d failed: %d\n", type, ret); > > > + sdw_dev_dbg_or_err(&slave->dev, ret != -ENODATA, > > > + "Clk Stop mode %d type =%d failed: %d\n", > > > + mode, type, ret); > > > > You just added a debug log for no reason. > > The number of logs is lower when dynamic debug is not enabled, and equal > when it is. there's no addition. > > The previous behavior was unconditional dev_err that everyone sees. > > Now it's dev_err ONLY when the code is NOT -ENODATA, and dev_dgb otherwise, > meaning it will seen ONLY be seen IF dynamic debug is enabled for > drivers/soundwire/bus.c > > Allow me to use another example from patch2: > > - if (ret == -ENODATA) > - dev_dbg(bus->dev, > - "ClockStopNow Broadcast msg ignored %d", ret); > - else > - dev_err(bus->dev, > - "ClockStopNow Broadcast msg failed %d", ret); > + sdw_dev_dbg_or_err(bus->dev, ret != -ENODATA, > + "ClockStopNow Broadcast msg failed %d\n", ret); > > There's no new log, is there? No, but that is not what you showed above which was just an error message being replaced with both a debug and an error message. Just drop the debug messages, they are pointless, right? thanks, greg k-h