Re: [PATCH 02/10] PCI/PME: Replace dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG) with dev_info()

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu May 09 2019 - 22:23:40 EST


On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 16:12 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 11:31:04AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 20:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 5:18 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Replace dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG) with dev_info() or dev_err() to be more
> > > > consistent with other logging.
> > > >
> > > > These could be converted to dev_dbg(), but that depends on
> > > > CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG and DEBUG, and we want most of these messages to
> > > > *always* be in the dmesg log.
> > > >
> > > > Also, use dev_fmt() to add the service name. Example output change:
> > > >
> > > > - pcieport 0000:80:10.0: Signaling PME with IRQ ...
> > > > + pcieport 0000:80:10.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ ...
> > > > + pci_info(port, "interrupt generated for non-existent device %02x:%02x.%d\n",
> > > > + busnr, PCI_SLOT(devfn), PCI_FUNC(devfn));
> > > > + pci_info(port, "Spurious native interrupt!\n");
> > > > + pci_info(port, "Signaling with IRQ %d\n", srv->irq);
> >
> > Why change the logging level?
> > Why not use #define DEBUG and use pci_dbg ?
>
> What would the benefit of using DEBUG be?

It makes the <foo>_dbg output unconditional or
possible to be disabled via dynamic_debug

> I don't want these
> particular messages to be conditional.