Re: [PATCH 02/49] staging: rtl8723bs: replace DBG_871X_SEL log macro with netdev_dbg()

[Fabio Aiuto]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 08:27:58AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-04-23 at 16:57 +0200, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> > replace DBG_871X_SEL log macro with the net device driver
> > recommended netdev_dbg().
> > 
> > This macro by default does a raw printk, and the alternative
> > behaviour, never triggered is a seq_print() call.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_debug.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_debug.c
> []
> > @@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ void mac_reg_dump(void *sel, struct adapter *adapter)
> >  	for (i = 0x0; i < 0x800; i += 4) {
> >  		if (j%4 == 1)
> >  			netdev_dbg(adapter->pnetdev, "0x%03x", i);
> > -		DBG_871X_SEL(sel, " 0x%08x ", rtw_read32(adapter, i));
> > +		netdev_dbg(adapter->pnetdev, " 0x%08x ",
> > +			   rtw_read32(adapter, i));
> >  		if ((j++)%4 == 0)
> > -			DBG_871X_SEL(sel, "\n");
> > +			netdev_dbg(adapter->pnetdev, "\n");
> >  	}
> 
> This makes a mess of the output as each netdev_dbg call
> is a separate line.
> 
> Dumping 1000 register lines into output logs seems impolite
> at best, even for debugging.
> 
> This _might_ be rewritten to something like:
> 
> void dump_4_regs(struct adapter *adapter, int offset)
> {
> 	u32 reg[4];
> 	int i;
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
> 		reg[i] = rtw_read32(adapter, offset + i);
> 
> 	netdev_dbg(adapter->pnetdev, "0x%03x 0x%08x 0x%08x 0x%08x 0x%08x\n",
> 		   i, reg[0], reg[1], reg[2], reg[3]);
> }
> 
> void mac_reg_dump(...)
> {
> 	...
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < 0x800; i += 4)
> 		dump_4_regs(adapter, i);
> 
> 
> 

interesting, sure that will be matter of another patch series,
the ugly output was already there, old macro used to wrap a raw
printk...