During review, it was suggested that drivers only emit messages when something is wrong or it is a debug message. Document this as a formal recommendation. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/2024012525-alienate-frown-916b@gregkh/ Signed-off-by: Abhishek Pandit-Subedi <abhishekpandit@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I'm sending up the change to documentation while this is still fresh. Will send an update to checkpatch.pl afterwards. Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst index c48382c6b477..f8ec23fa89bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst @@ -899,7 +899,8 @@ which you should use to make sure messages are matched to the right device and driver, and are tagged with the right level: dev_err(), dev_warn(), dev_info(), and so forth. For messages that aren't associated with a particular device, <linux/printk.h> defines pr_notice(), pr_info(), -pr_warn(), pr_err(), etc. +pr_warn(), pr_err(), etc. When drivers are working properly they are quiet, +so prefer to use dev_dbg/pr_debug unless something is wrong. Coming up with good debugging messages can be quite a challenge; and once you have them, they can be a huge help for remote troubleshooting. However -- 2.43.0.429.g432eaa2c6b-goog
