On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 22:22 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 07:08:08AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: [] > > ftrace exists and is generic. > > > > Several of these seem to be function tracing > > style uses and should just be deleted instead. > > function tracing style uses means?
ftrace see: Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt > there are some prints which are printing the function name while printing the > debug message. > are those function tracing style uses?? A debug message should generally not be emitting a message just for the sake of documenting when a function is entered/left. Sometimes that is useful for initial debugging, but almost always those debugging printks should not be left in the code that is pushed to kernel.org. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/