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

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 16:54 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> I don't see how DEFAULT_DEBUG_LEVEL can be used to optimize away
> anything.  The user can always change the value of the "debug" module
> parameter while the system is running.  The only valid opportunity for
> optimization would be if CONFIG_SND_DEBUG was disabled; then all these 
> messages would disappear.

Not really.

Think of CONFIG_SND_DEBUG as a level. (0, 1, 2)
or maybe think of it as CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_VERBOSITY.

There could still be ability to have CONFIG_SND_DEBUG
limit the compiled-in messages to those below the
#define value and still then have runtime control over
which ones are displayed.

> You didn't respond to the first point I raised.  Since these messages
> are all meant for debugging, there's no point allowing them to have
> prefixes like KERN_ERR or KERN_INFO.  They should always be printed at
> the KERN_DEBUG level.  Or did you think this was so obviously true that
> it didn't require any comment?

Yes.  My perspective is _all_ debugging messages should
be at KERN_DEBUG.