Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 May 2013 14:14:57 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: Improving or replacing snd_printk() |
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On Wed, 29 May 2013, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 15:27 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > Has there been any thought of improving snd_printk(), or even better, > > changing the call sites to use the dev_*() routines instead? > > Perhaps better would be to add and use some combination of > type specific logging message functions/macros like: > > void snd_<level>(const struct snd_device *dev, const char *fmt, ...) > void snd_card_<level>(const struct snd_card *card, const char *fmt, ...) > void snd_ac97_<level>(const struct snd_ac97 *ac97, const char *fmt, ...) > > allowing NULL as the type pointer when necessary/appropriate.
Almost anything would be better than the current situation. The only enhancement provided by CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is to print the filename and line number, which is relatively unhelpful (unless there are multiple copies of the same message in several places).
Alan Stern
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