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

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 10:40 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > How useful really is it to be able to limit the amount of debugging
> > > messages at runtime?  Does anybody ever actually adjust the "debug"  
> > > module parameter?
> > When it's a bitmask, yes.
> > It then becomes similar to ethtool.
> But it isn't a bitmask; it's just a level.

I understood that from the beginning and was
describing generically the different approaches
used in the kernel.

I was simply suggesting sound use classification
via bitmask instead of level.