Re: [PATCH 0/2] drm/i915/gem: conversion to new drm logging macros

[Jani Nikula]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2020, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Quoting Wambui Karuga (2020-01-22 12:57:48)
>> This series is a part of the conversion to  the new struct drm_device
>> based logging macros in drm/i915.
>> This series focuses on the drm/i915/gem directory and converts all
>> straightforward instances of the printk based logging macros to the new
>> macros.
>
> Overall, I'm not keen on this as it perpetuates the mistake of putting
> client debug message in dmesg and now gives them even more an air of
> being device driver debug messages. We need a mechanism by which we
> report the details of what a client did wrong back to that client
> (tracefs + context/client getparam to return an isolated debug fd is my
> idea).

I don't disagree, but I also don't think this makes things (much) worse
in that regard.

>
>> Wambui Karuga (2):
>>   drm/i915/gem: initial conversion to new logging macros using
>>     coccinelle.
>>   drm/i915/gem: manual conversion to struct drm_device logging macros.
>
> Still this is a necessary evil for the current situation,
> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, pushed both.

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center