Re: [PATCH] staging/wlan-ng: Change KERN_DEBUG or pr_debug to matchorig driver

[Jiri Slaby]

On 05/08/2009 09:54 PM, Karl Relton wrote:
> Change uses of KERN_DEBUG over to pr_debug to match original driver
> where messages are only needed during driver development.

Hmm, but many of them don't fit this rule. Some of them should be
honored a higher level, some of them simply should be left as such,
because we want to see the information.

> --- c/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c	2009-04-30 05:48:16.000000000 +0100
> +++ d/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c	2009-05-08 19:11:11.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ int prism2mgmt_wlansniff(wlandevice_t *w
>  		/* Disable monitor mode */
>  		result = hfa384x_cmd_monitor(hw, HFA384x_MONITOR_DISABLE);
>  		if (result) {
> -			printk(KERN_DEBUG
> +			pr_debug(
>  			       "failed to disable monitor mode, result=%d\n",

rather an ERROR or WARNING?

> --- c/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c	2009-04-30 05:48:16.000000000 +0100
> +++ d/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c	2009-05-08 19:15:08.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ static void prism2sta_inf_chinforesults(
>  			chinforesult->active =
>  			    le16_to_cpu(inf->info.chinforesult.result[n].
>  					    active);
> -			printk(KERN_DEBUG
> +			pr_debug(
>  			       "chinfo: channel %d, %s level (avg/peak)=%d/%d dB, pcf %d\n",

yeah, useless info for an user (the change is OK), but:

> @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ void prism2sta_processing_defer(struct w
>  							wlandev->bssid,
>  							WLAN_BSSID_LEN);
>  			if (result) {
> -				printk(KERN_DEBUG
> +				pr_debug(
>  				       "getconfig(0x%02x) failed, result = %d\n",
>  				       HFA384x_RID_CURRENTBSSID, result);

we want likely to know this one.

etc.
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