Re: [PATCH] staging: ozwpan: Convert printk to dev_dbg()

[Alan Stern]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Rupesh Gujare wrote:

> On 25/06/13 18:02, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 05:30:02PM +0100, Rupesh Gujare wrote:
> >> convert all debug messages from printk to dev_dbg() & add kernel config to
> >> enable/disable these messages during compilation.
> > No, just use the built-in dynamic debug code in the kernel, no need to
> > provide any new macros or functions or most importantly, no new Kconfig
> > options.
> >
> 
> New macro (oz_trace) is being used as pointer to "struct device *" is 
> not available in all functions for dev_dbg() function.
> Please let me know if there is better way to handle this, I will be 
> happy to rework on this.

It depends on the situation.  In many cases there _is_ a struct device
associated with the log message, even if a pointer to that device isn't
available in the function.  The proper solution in those cases is to
make it available, by passing the function an extra "struct device *"
argument.

In a few cases there really is no device associated with the message.  
For example, if the module prints out a message when it is first 
loaded, there probably is no device around at that time.  However, in 
most cases there _is_ an associated device.

Alan Stern

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