Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Self nomination

[Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> 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() ?

Personally I think that difference is a hassle.  When I convert
printk(KERN_DEBUG) to use dev_printk, I use dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG) to
preserve the fact that the printk happens unconditionally.  If I were
smarter, I would figure out how to use dev_dbg() effectively, but
usually I want my patch to be "convert to dev_printk", not "convert to
dev_dbg and only print when some magic incantation is given".