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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:08:25AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 09:59:15AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Hi Bjorn,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:27:38AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > > Mainly I'd like to talk about improving testing around the kernel, both by catching bugs
> > > > and by improving the quality of debug output that comes out of the kernel.
> > > 
> > > What sort of debug output improvements are you interested in?  I spend
> > > a fair amount of time converting to dev_printk and %pR.  They make the
> > 
> > I have been wondering about that, especially since dev_dbg() and
> > 'dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, ...)' are semantically different. Any reason
> > for preferring dev_printk() over dev_dbg() ?
> 
> The opposite is true, please always use dev_dbg() as it properly ties

Hi Greg,

maybe my semantics wasn't perfect - my question was why Bjorn prefers
dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, ..) over dev_dbg(), which he answered.

I did not (want to) make the claim or even suggest that dev_printk()
would be preferred over dev_dbg() in general.

Thanks,
Guenter