Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] media: i2c: add DS90UB913 driver

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 07:01:11PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 08:29:48AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > On 11/12/2022 20:33, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 12:40:05PM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

...

> > >> +	dev_dbg(dev, "Bind %s\n", source_subdev->name);
> > > 
> > > I'd drop this message.

+1 here.

> > Why is that? Do we get this easily from the v4l2 core? These debug 
> > prints in the bind/unbind process have been valuable for me.
> 
> Because debug messages are not meant to be a tracing infrastructure, and
> because, if we want to keep this message, it would be best handled in
> the v4l2-async core instead of being duplicated across drivers. Same for
> the messages at the end of the function.

I don't think v4l2 needs debug prints. If we consider the above case, the
ftrace already provides that. If we consider something specific to v4l2 to
trace only critical parts, then trace events should be implemented.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko