Re: [PATCH 0/2] small xhci cleanups

From: Sarah Sharp
Date: Tue Mar 16 2010 - 17:25:19 EST


On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:47:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:32:27AM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > * Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:52:43AM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > >
> > > > USB: xhci: move all debug code under CONFIG_XHCI_HCD_DEBUGGING
> > >
> > > Does this conflict with Sarah's other debugging patch she just sent out?
> >
> > I'm assuming you're talking about this patch:
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/28681
>
> Yes.
>
> > Yes, we'll definitely have conflicts. If you agree that we should
> > move the debug code under the Kconfig option, then the best
> > course of action would be for Sarah to rebase her work on top of
> > my patches (since they're intrusive).
>
> As Sarah is the maintainer of the file, I'll leave that decision up to
> her :)
>
> And keeping a config option for debugging isn't a good idea. The rest
> of the kernel has switched to using dynamic debugging, so that distros
> and others can easily get information without requiring a kernel rebuild
> (which we can't expect users to always be able to do.) So I would not
> recommend this change.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:48:45PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Naming consistency with other USB HCDs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@xxxxxx>
> ---
> Refreshed against 2.6.34-rc1 and compile tested.
>
> I didn't refresh the debug one; waiting to hear back from Sarah
> to see if it's worth doing or not.

Ok, I didn't see Greg's email about dynamic debugging. I guess you
shouldn't refresh the second patch. I'm not sure how I would go about
converting the xHCI driver to dynamic debugging, as I haven't looked
into it. Is there any documentation/simple examples?

Greg, does the less-verbose patch with log levels still make sense if
the driver got converted over to dynamic debugging?

Sarah Sharp
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