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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 14:17:20 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Ian S. Nelson" <nelcomp@attglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: __FUNCTION__
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:59:46PM -0700, Ian S. Nelson wrote:
> 
> I suspect this might be about as religious an issue as there is but has 
> anyone thought about coming up with some "standard" debugging macros, 
> perhaps something that can be configured at compile time from the 
> configuration for everyone to use everywhere?  I've got my own debug 
> macros,  essentially a printk with the file, function and line added 
> wrapped in #ifdef DEBUG.  I've seen several other schemes in other parts 
> of the kernel and now some of them aren't correct.

Jeff Garzik and others have talked about unifying the network driver's
debug statements and levels with a common set of macros and level
values.  I want to do the same thing with the USB drivers, but was
waiting for them to finalize their scheme first (and hopefully use the
same thing.)

So yes, I think there can be some kind of "standard" debugging macros,
but the "standard" will probably be limited to a subset of the kernel.

greg k-h
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