On 2021/2/8 18:47, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:44:52PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> On 2021/2/5 17:53, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 05:44:12PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: >>>> From: Junhao He <hejunhao2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> Use subdir-ccflags-* instead of ccflags-* to inherit the debug >>>> settings from Kconfig when traversing subdirectories. >>> >>> That says what you do, but not _why_ you are doing it. >> >> i'll illustrate the reason and reword the commit. >> >>> >>> What does this offer in benefit of the existing way? What is it fixing? >>> Why do this "churn"? >> >> currently we have added ccflags-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER) := -DDEBUG in the Makefile >> of driver/base and driver/base/power, but not in the subdirectory >> driver/base/firmware_loader. we cannot turn the debug on for subdirectory >> firmware_loader if we config DEBUG_DRIVER and there is no kconfig option >> for the it. > > Is that necessary? Does that directory need it? there are several debug prints in firmware_loader/main.c: ./main.c:207: pr_debug("%s: fw-%s fw_priv=%p\n", __func__, fw_name, fw_priv); ./main.c:245: pr_debug("batched request - sharing the same struct fw_priv and lookup for multiple requests\n"); ./main.c:269: pr_debug("%s: fw-%s fw_priv=%p data=%p size=%u\n", ./main.c:594: pr_debug("%s: fw-%s fw_priv=%p data=%p size=%u\n", ./main.c:605: pr_debug("%s: fw_name-%s devm-%p released\n", ./main.c:1175: pr_debug("%s: %s\n", __func__, fw_name); ./main.c:1181: pr_debug("%s: %s ret=%d\n", __func__, fw_name, ret); ./main.c:1214: pr_debug("%s: %s\n", __func__, fw_name); ./main.c:1272: pr_debug("%s: fw: %s\n", __func__, name); ./main.c:1389: pr_debug("%s\n", __func__); ./main.c:1415: pr_debug("%s\n", __func__); > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > . > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel