On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 15:53 +0530, Chandrabhanu Mahapatra wrote: > Hi everyone, > this patch series aims at cleaning up of DSS of printk()'s enabled with > dss_debug and replace them with generic dynamic debug printing. > > The 1st patch > * moved DEBUG flag definition to Makefile > The 2nd patch > * replaces printk() in DSSDBG definition with pr_debug() > * removes DSSDBGF definition and replaces its instances with DSSDBG() > The 3rd patch > * cleans up printk()'s in omap_dispc_unregister_isr() and > _dsi_print_reset_status() with pr_debug() > * removes dss_debug variable > > Changes from V1 to V2: > * added debug messages to DSSDBG calls > * added patch "OMAPDSS: Remove dss_debug variable" > > Changes from V2 to V3 > * added patch "OMAPDSS: Move definition of DEBUG flag to Makefile" > > All your comments and suggestions are welcome.
There's one thing that's not quite nice about omapdss's debug print behavior after this series. CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS_DEBUG_SUPPORT is marked "default y", and it's also been safe to enable earlier as we had the dss_debug variable to prevent the debug prints. But after this series, the debug prints are enabled, and will spam the kernel log quite heavily. And that happens with both dynamic debugging enabled and disabled. How things should work: For kernels with dynamic debugging disabled: by default the dss debugs are not compiled, and the user needs to explicitly enable them in the kernel config. For kernels with dynamic debugging enabled: by default the dss debugs are compiled in, but not enabled. A Kconfig option can be set to make the debugs enabled by default. In addition to those, we have the debugfs files. Those should be usable regardless of the debug prints. So I suggest the following: - Remove CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS_DEBUG_SUPPORT. We can't re-use it, because it may be enabled in user's kernel configs. - Add new Kconfig option: CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS_DEBUG. This will set DEBUG in the makefile. This is off by default. - Add new Kconfig option: CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS_DEBUGFS. This will be use to decide if debugfs functionality is compiled in or not. This is off by default. Tomi
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