Trent Jaeger wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Chris Wright wrote: > > Little heavy on KERN_DEBUG printk's. Could you drop them (or perhaps > > use pr_debug instead)? > > You are right. Are there guidelines for when to use KERN_DEBUGs that > I should be aware of?
Never. Just use pr_debug(). Debugging output is just for developers getting rid of bugs :-) Other verbose output should be rate limited and only enabled by setting some admin configurable variable. Rationale: The common use case is, that your are NOT debugging the kernel, because it just works and the messages are just filling your logs. Regards Ingo Oeser - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html