Is amdgpu open to converting logging to drm_* functions

Brahmajit Das listout at listout.xyz
Thu Aug 7 11:28:43 UTC 2025


On 07.08.2025 13:18, Christian König wrote:
> IIRC we settled on printing everything DRM related (e.g. display, device lifetime, clients etc...) with the DRM macros.
> 
> But everything related to general HW information like PCI slot configuration, BARs, speed etc... is printed with the general kernel functions, e.g. dev_err() dev_warn()....
> 
> Background is that a lot of messages are printed by the PCI subsystem while resizing BARs for example and it just doesn't make sense to enable/disable the amdgpu prints based on DRM log level around that.
> 
> So as far as I can see there isn't much left TODO on that side.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian.
> 
> On 07.08.25 12:20, Brahmajit Das wrote:
> > Hello Alex, Christian,
> > 
> > I'm a mentee at Linux kernel Bug Fixing Summer 2025. I came across the
> > TODO list on the kernel doc, and specifically this section[0]. Would
> > amdgpu be open to this conversion. I saw that before starting it is
> > recommended to talk with Sean and the relevant maintainer. Hence I'm
> > emailing you folks.
> > 
> > I guess you can also refer to this,
> > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191219161722.2779994-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
> > 
> > [0]:
> > https://docs.kernel.org/gpu/todo.html#convert-logging-to-drm-functions-with-drm-device-parameter
> > 
> 

Understood, thanks.

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