[PATCH v1 02/11] drm: drop uapi dependency from drm_print.h

[Koenig, Christian]

Am 29.07.19 um 16:35 schrieb Sam Ravnborg:
>>>> Even then it so useless (which drm driver is this message for???) that I
>>>> want to remove them all :(
>>> Yeah, agree. I mean it is nice if the core drm functions use a prefix
>>> for debug output.
>>>
>>> But I actually don't see the point for individual drivers.
>> We should all migrate to the versions with device...
> Just to do an xkdc.com/927 I have considered:
>
> drm_err(const struct drm_device *drm, ...)
> drm_info(const struct drm_device *drm, ...)
>
> drm_kms_err(const struct drm_device *drm, ...)
> drm_kms_info(const struct drm_device *drm, ...))

Why not get completely rid of those and just use dev_err, dev_warn, 
pr_err, pr_warn etc?

I mean is it useful to have this extra printing subsystem in DRM while 
the standard Linux one actually does a better job?

Christian.

>
> And so on for vbl, primse. lease, state etc.
>
> Then we could fish out relevant info from the drm device and present
> this nicely.
>
> For the cases where no drm_device is available the fallback is:
> drm_dev_err(const struct drm_device *drm, ...)
> drm_dev_info(const struct drm_device *drm, ...))
>
> We could modify the existing UPPERCASE macros to be placeholders for
> the more reader friendly lower cases variants and base it all on the
> established infrastructure.
>
> But this is just idle thinking, as only a serious patch would stir the
> relevant discussions.
>
> For now this is far from the top of my TODO list.
>
>
> 	Sam