On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 09:09:20PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: > On 2021/2/8 18:47, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:44:52PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: > >> On 2021/2/5 17:53, Greg KH wrote: > >>> 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"); > <snip> Even if these are not in scope for CONFIG_DEBUG_DRVIER there is a config option that would allow you to observe them without changing any code (CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG). Daniel.