[alsa-devel] Improving or replacing snd_printk()

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 09:35 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 31 May 2013 00:30:09 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 09:23 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Fri, 31 May 2013 00:06:07 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 08:37 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > > I think most of snd_printd() and snd_printdd() can be kept as is.
> > > > > These are just debug messages, after all.
> > > > Some of those are emitted at levels other than KERN_DEBUG.
> > > > I think that odd.
> > > Yeah, they aren't good, but it's a different topic.
> > 
> > Not really, I think it's systemic and fallout from
> > accretive implementation rather than design.
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> But you shouldn't mix up with the fix for the missing verbosity and
> the fix for wrong KERN_ prefix, at least, in the patch level.  They
> need to be fixed individually.

I think that's best too.

I don't see the complexity/hell in adding functions
for specific types of struct * to reduce the complexity
of the code though.  Centralizing those indirections
into functions also generally reduces overall code size.