[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: get rid of CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:49:22 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:18:49 -0400 (EDT),
> > Alan Stern wrote:
> > > 
> > > According to Takashi Iwai, CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is "useless".  All 
> > > it does is add filenames and line numbers to certain log messages.
> > 
> > No, I did't mean it.  The file name and line number are useful.
> > What's useless is to let user select CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK.
> > If the extra information can be annoying, the driver should use the
> > plain printk() or whatever from the beginning.  If the driver code
> > chooses snd_printk(), it implies that it wants extra information.
> 
> Although most of the calls to snd_printk() are for errors and warnings,
> some of them are just informational.  You don't mind having those
> messages suddenly including the filename and line number?  (At least, 
> until someone gets around to changing them to printk() or something 
> else...)

I wouldn't mind but some might do :)

So we should clean up the excessive usage of snd_printk() and convert
them to the standard printk & co at first.


Takashi