Re: [PATCH v2] staging: wlan-ng: remove commented debug printk messages

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On 10/22/22 05:40, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 08:35:47PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 01:03:42AM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
>>> index e04fc666d218..6bef419e8ad0 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211netdev.c
>>> @@ -881,55 +881,42 @@ static int p80211_rx_typedrop(struct wlandevice *wlandev, u16 fc)
>>>  		wlandev->rx.mgmt++;
>>>  		switch (fstype) {
>>>  		case WLAN_FSTYPE_ASSOCREQ:
>>> -			/* printk("assocreq"); */
>>>  			wlandev->rx.assocreq++;
>>>  			break;
>>>  			wlandev->rx.ctl_unknown++;
>>>  			break;
>>>  		}
>>> -		/* printk("\n"); */
>>>  		drop = 2;
>>>  		break;
>>>
>>> @@ -1007,7 +986,6 @@ static int p80211_rx_typedrop(struct wlandevice *wlandev, u16 fc)
>>>  			wlandev->rx.cfack_cfpoll++;
>>>  			break;
>>>  		default:
>>> -			/* printk("unknown"); */
>>>  			wlandev->rx.data_unknown++;
>>>  			break;
>>>  		}
>>
>> Shouldn't these printks be guarded under CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL instead?
> 
> Hi Sanjaya,
> Sure they can, but I think they are very basic tracing message and do not appear
> to carry much of information useful the event of debugging. Do you have a
> suggestion on what additional information may be added to make them more useful?
> 
> If you still think we should have then in the CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL guard, let me
> know and I will attempt to improve these.
> 
> Thank you,
> ./drv
> 

Greg said we should just deleting these printks [1].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y1VL%2FwITM64U6qLi@xxxxxxxxx/

Thanks anyway.

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