On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 06:00:12PM +0530, Chandra Gorentla wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:01:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:32:17PM +0530, Chandra S Gorentla wrote: > > > This patch allows setting all options in the module's debug region > > > options file 'wilc_debug_region'. This functionality allows the user > > > to enable logging from all regions (initialization, locks, firmware > > > etc.) of the driver. Logging from the following regions is enabled > > > during the driver initialization: > > > > > > INIT_DBG, GENERIC_DBG, CFG80211_DBG, FIRM_DBG and HOSTAPD_DBG > > > > > > Before this change, the numerical value set is equal first byte of > > > input minus 0x30 (ASCII value of '0'). Because of this, after a write > > > to this debugfs file, it is difficult to predict the regions on which > > > logging is enabled. > > > > > > The DBG_REGION_ALL now includes 3 additional regions TCP_ENH, SPIN_DEBUG > > > and FIRM_DBG. > > > > Why did you add these extra ones? > I added them because there is code support them and to avoid a holes in > the range of the options. But why do you need to debug such things? > > All of this should eventually just be deleted, as network drivers need > > to use the networking driver debug interfaces, not their own crazy ones. > In that case, can I assume that we are not going forward with this change? I hope not, please work on fixing the driver up to work properly (i.e. not with this type of stuff...) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
