[PATCH v2] [media] v4l: omap4iss: Add DEBUG compiler flag
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Thu Mar 6 01:27:46 UTC 2014
Hi Joe,
On Wednesday 05 March 2014 17:00:37 Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 01:48 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Would you recommend to drop driver-specific Kconfig options related to
> > debugging and use CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG instead ?
>
> For development, sure, if there's sufficient memory.
>
> For embedded systems with limited memory, using dynamic_debug isn't always
> possible or effective.
>
> Also, there are sometimes reasons to have debugging messages always enabled
> or emitted.
>
> For those cases, either adding #define DEBUG or using printk(KERN_DEBUG
> would be fine.
My goal here is to offer an easy way for users to enable debugging without
requiring changes to the source code. The driver includes various dev_dbg()
messages, I don't want to ask people reporting problems to turn them into
printk() calls :-) Even adding #define DEBUG at the beginning of the source
files is likely too error prone for users without much programming experience.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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