-------- Original Message -------- Title: Re: [PATCH] i2c: hix5hd2: Add some debug enhancement for register access From: wsa@xxxxxxxxxx To: taolan@xxxxxxxxxx; Cc: linux-i2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 2022/9/18 04:29 > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 12:48:20PM +0000, Tao Lan wrote: >> From: taolan <taolan@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Sometimes, to locate a fault, we need to know how the register is >> configured and whether the configuration is incorrect. Currently, no >> better method is available for analysis. >> >> This patch tries to solve the problem by naming the registers and >> printing the accessed values. >> >> Signed-off-by: taolan <taolan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Such debug helpers are not suitable for upstream because they need quite > some resources for rare cases... Yeah, how about writing to proc as an event, or any suggestions? > >> + pr_notice("write 0x%04x to %s\n", val, g_i2c_reg_name[idx >> 0x2].name); > > ... and using this loglevel you will flood logs of users. The loglevel can be adjusted to DEBUG level,and this debug can be off by default. is this ok? > >