[PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: conditionally compile debug code

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jul 16 22:57:42 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 03:46:09PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 15:10 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:03:06PM +0100, Michalis Pappas wrote:
> []
> > > Ok, I agree on the ifdef stuff. My question was regarding your
> > > suggestion above to replace print_hex_debug() with dev_dbg()
> > 
> > You want the device name/id/label to show up as well, that is why you
> > should use the dev_dbg() version, print_hex_dump() does not take a
> > struct device *, so the user has no idea what device this data was
> > coming from.
> 
> But Michalis could alway add something like:
> 	dev_hex_dump()
> and
> 	dev_dbg_hex_dump()
> 

With the built-in "hex dump primitive" in printk(), why would you want
to do that?  You shouldn't be putting more than 64 bytes in a single
printk message in a hex dump, if you want to do more, use debugfs.

thanks,

greg k-h



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