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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] venus: Make debug infrastructure more flexible
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On Wed, 2020-06-10 at 15:37 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Please work with the infrastructure we have, we have spent a lot of time
> and effort to make it uniform to make it easier for users and
> developers.

Not quite.

This lack of debug grouping by type has been a
_long_ standing issue with drivers.

> Don't regress and try to make driver-specific ways of doing
> things, that way lies madness...

It's not driver specific, it allows driver developers to
better isolate various debug states instead of keeping
lists of specific debug messages and enabling them
individually.