Re: [RFC 1/2] uhci: change dependency for debug parameter

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On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 17:11 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 06:13:06PM +0100, oliver@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > To allow a full switch to dynamic debugging make the
> > > debug parameter conditional on defined(DEBUF) || defined(DYNAMIC_DEBUG)
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
> > > index 4a86b63..c53058d 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c
> > > @@ -69,19 +69,14 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_oc, "ignore hardware overcurrent indications");
> > >   *            show all queues in /sys/kernel/debug/uhci/[pci_addr]
> > >   * debug = 3, show all TDs in URBs when dumping
> > >   */
> > > -#ifdef DEBUG
> > > -#define DEBUG_CONFIGURED	1
> > > +#if defined(DEBUG) || defined(DYNAMIC_DEBUG)
> > 
> > My goal would be to see DEBUG go away entirely, so why not just remove
> > it here as well and only depend on DYNAMIC_DEBUG?
> 
> What Oliver did here is along the same lines as what Xenia Ragiadakou
> did in commit 1512c91f1c76.  Maybe that should be updated as well.

I will kill it when I change the Makefile.

> I wanted to have a way of enabling USB debugging permanently for my
> personal testing tree.  What's the best way to do that?  Keep a local
> patch that adds "CFLAGS += -DDYNAMIC_DEBUG" to the Makefiles?
> 
> > >  static int debug = 1;
> > >  module_param(debug, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
> > >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Debug level");
> > 
> > You can leave the module parameter in, but just set the default to 0,
> > and we should be fine.
> 
> I don't think the default should be 0.  It would mean users would 
> have to set the module parameter in addition to turning on dynamic 
> debugging, in order to get any output.

It seems to me that the default of 1 is alright. 1 only prints
a message with dev_dbg()

> > Or just remove this entirely, as I doubt it's really needed anymore.
> 
> Actually, I can't remember the last time anybody needed debugging
> output for uhci-hcd...

Well, uhci is a module needed rarely on modern machines anyway.
But that is not a reason to cripple it for the cases it is actually
needed.

	Regards
		Oliver



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