On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Andy Walls wrote: > On my system, every 10 seconds drm_edid_block_valid() gets called 4 > times by radeon_dvi_detect(). This results in 4 instances of a > multi-line hex dump of the same EDID (non-)data being logged every 10 > seconds. > > Silence the hex dump from drm_edid_block_valid() unless a drm_debug > module parameter flag is set. > > Signed-of-by: Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c > index dce5c4a..33a748c 100644 > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c > @@ -173,9 +173,12 @@ drm_edid_block_valid(u8 *raw_edid) > > bad: > if (raw_edid) { > - DRM_ERROR("Raw EDID:\n"); > - print_hex_dump_bytes(KERN_ERR, DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, raw_edid, EDID_LENGTH); > - printk("\n"); > + DRM_DEBUG("Raw EDID:\n"); > + if (drm_debug & DRM_UT_CORE) { > + print_hex_dump_bytes(KERN_ERR, DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, > + raw_edid, EDID_LENGTH); > + printk("\n"); > + } > } > return 0; > } > Why not print it only once on original error level? Something like: static bool printed = false; if (!printed) { ... printed = true; } It has the same effect for you (no spamming by default) and it's still provide some information. Marcin _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel