Re: [PATCH] ixgb: Delete IXGB_DBG() macro and call pr_debug() directly.

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Auke Kok wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:

... snip ...

> >   if someone wants to tell me what, in the context of ixgb_main.c,
> > i would use as that "dev" argument [for dev_dbg], i'm all for
> > that.
>
> (CC netdev since it's a network driver topic).
>
> all our macro's (e100, e1000, ixgb) use adapter->netdev->name
> inserted through the DPRINTK macro.
>
> if you'd really want to clean it all up, you'd have to replace all
> DPRINTK() calls with dev_dbg(adapter->netdev->name, ....) which
> would just make it more lengthy and uncomfortable to read.
>
> which puts this in a bigger perspective. I suppose the nicest way to do
> program these is to do something like this:
>
> #define ixgb_dbg(args...) dev_dbg(adapter->netdev->name, args)
> #define ixgb_err(args...) dev_err(adapter->netdev->name, args)
> #define ixgb_info(args...) dev_info(adapter->netdev->name, args)
>
> and use those consistently throughout the driver, ditto for e100/e1000.
>
> I'll look into it and see what I can do.

um, yeah.  i'm rapidly getting out of my comfort zone here.  this
seemed like such a simple submission six hours ago.  :-)  live and
learn.

rday
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