Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wm_adsp: Dump DSP_SCRATCH1 on DSP shutdown

From: Richard Fitzgerald
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 12:13:27 EST


On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:37:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:24:39PM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 02:57:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > > - adsp_dbg(dsp, "Shutdown complete\n");
> > > > + adsp_info(dsp, "Shutdown complete (SCRATCH1:0x%x)\n", scratch1);
>
> > > That seems a bit loud for a diagnostic message, why raise the severity?
>
> > It's a diagnostic of the firmware, not the driver, and we can't assume that
> > people trying to use a firmware have the ability to build and flash a kernel
> > with a debug version of the driver
>
> The default is that dev_dbg() is available in dmesg but not on the
> console which usually seems like a reasonable balance for this sort of
> thing - it's there if people want it but not included in the default
> logging.

What you're describing seems to be the default for dev_info().
For me I don't get any dev_dbg() output in the dmesg log unless the source
file has a #define DEBUG at the top.
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