Hello Kai
You have seen this patch before. The first time around, given that we don't enable DEBUG by default, I let it go.
However we have been looking into defining DEBUG 1 by default here at Redhat and then setting the default to disabled.
Are you open to considering changing the driver based on this patch.
i.e. default DEFINE 1 and adding this code with default set to off.
Note that with DEBUG 0, as you know you need to change that and recompile.
That is exactly what I am trying to avoid with Enterprise customers.
This patch adds a debug_flag parameter that can be set on module load, and allows the DEBUG facility without a module recompile.
Note that now DEBUG 1 is the default with this patch.
Usage: modprobe st debug_flag=1
Signed-off-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff -Nur a/st.c b/st.c
--- a/st.c 2014-10-17 16:15:54.103810627 -0400
+++ b/st.c 2014-10-17 16:22:12.303810392 -0400
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
/* The driver prints some debugging information on the console if DEBUG
is defined and non-zero. */
-#define DEBUG 0
+#define DEBUG 1
#define ST_DEB_MSG KERN_NOTICE
#if DEBUG
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
static int try_direct_io = TRY_DIRECT_IO;
static int try_rdio = 1;
static int try_wdio = 1;
+static int debug_flag = 0;
static struct class st_sysfs_class;
static const struct attribute_group *st_dev_groups[];
@@ -100,6 +101,9 @@
MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_sg_segs, "Maximum number of scatter/gather segments to use (256)");
module_param_named(try_direct_io, try_direct_io, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(try_direct_io, "Try direct I/O between user buffer and tape drive (1)");
+module_param_named(debug_flag, debug_flag, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug_flag, "Enable DEBUG, same as setting debugging=1");
+
/* Extra parameters for testing */
module_param_named(try_rdio, try_rdio, int, 0);
@@ -124,6 +128,9 @@
},
{
"try_direct_io", &try_direct_io
+ },
+ {
+ "debug_flag", &debug_flag
}
};
#endif
@@ -4306,6 +4313,11 @@
validate_options();
+ debugging = (debug_flag > 0) ? debug_flag : DEBUG;
+ if (debugging)
+ printk(KERN_INFO "st: Debugging enabled debug_flag = %d\n",debugging);
+
+
printk(KERN_INFO "st: Version %s, fixed bufsize %d, s/g segs %d\n",
verstr, st_fixed_buffer_size, st_max_sg_segs);
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