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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2019-12-19 17:17:22 +0100
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drm/todo: Updating logging todo
Jani has merged a new set of logging functions, which we hope to be the One True solution now, pinky promises: commit fb6c7ab8718eb2543695d77ad8302ff81e8e1e32 Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Date: Tue Dec 10 14:30:43 2019 +0200 drm/print: introduce new struct drm_device based logging macros Update the todo entry to match the new preference. v2: Fix spelling issue Sam noticed. Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run> Cc: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191219161722.2779994-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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Level: Advanced
-Convert instances of dev_info/dev_err/dev_warn to their DRM_DEV_* equivalent
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+Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater
+------------------------------------------------------------
For drivers which could have multiple instances, it is necessary to
differentiate between which is which in the logs. Since DRM_INFO/WARN/ERROR
don't do this, drivers used dev_info/warn/err to make this differentiation. We
-now have DRM_DEV_* variants of the drm print macros, so we can start to convert
-those drivers back to using drm-formwatted specific log messages.
+now have drm_* variants of the drm print functions, so we can start to convert
+those drivers back to using drm-formatted specific log messages.
Before you start this conversion please contact the relevant maintainers to make
sure your work will be merged - not everyone agrees that the DRM dmesg macros