Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] staging: qlge: replace pr_err with netdev_err

From: Benjamin Poirier
Date: Mon Jun 29 2020 - 16:42:41 EST


On 2020-06-27 22:58 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
[...]
> void ql_dump_qdev(struct ql_adapter *qdev)
> {
> @@ -1611,99 +1618,100 @@ void ql_dump_qdev(struct ql_adapter *qdev)
> #ifdef QL_CB_DUMP
> void ql_dump_wqicb(struct wqicb *wqicb)
> {
> - pr_err("Dumping wqicb stuff...\n");
> - pr_err("wqicb->len = 0x%x\n", le16_to_cpu(wqicb->len));
> - pr_err("wqicb->flags = %x\n", le16_to_cpu(wqicb->flags));
> - pr_err("wqicb->cq_id_rss = %d\n",
> - le16_to_cpu(wqicb->cq_id_rss));
> - pr_err("wqicb->rid = 0x%x\n", le16_to_cpu(wqicb->rid));
> - pr_err("wqicb->wq_addr = 0x%llx\n",
> - (unsigned long long)le64_to_cpu(wqicb->addr));
> - pr_err("wqicb->wq_cnsmr_idx_addr = 0x%llx\n",
> - (unsigned long long)le64_to_cpu(wqicb->cnsmr_idx_addr));
> + netdev_err(qdev->ndev, "Dumping wqicb stuff...\n");

drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c:1621:13: error: âqdevâ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean âcdevâ?
1621 | netdev_err(qdev->ndev, "Dumping wqicb stuff...\n");
| ^~~~
| cdev

[...]
and many more like that

Anyways, qlge_dbg.h is a dumpster. It has hundreds of lines of code
bitrotting away in ifdef land. See this comment from David Miller on the
topic of ifdef'ed debugging code:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200303.145916.1506066510928020193.davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/