[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/2] drm/i915/gem: conversion to new drm logging macros

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Daniel Vetter (2020-01-27 09:05:57)
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 04:08:39PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Wambui Karuga (2020-01-22 12:57:48)
> > > This series is a part of the conversion to  the new struct drm_device
> > > based logging macros in drm/i915.
> > > This series focuses on the drm/i915/gem directory and converts all
> > > straightforward instances of the printk based logging macros to the new
> > > macros.
> > 
> > Overall, I'm not keen on this as it perpetuates the mistake of putting
> > client debug message in dmesg and now gives them even more an air of
> > being device driver debug messages. We need a mechanism by which we
> > report the details of what a client did wrong back to that client
> > (tracefs + context/client getparam to return an isolated debug fd is my
> > idea).
> 
> Sean is working on that, but it's a global thing still.

Go look at how I suggest we can use tracefs in that thread :)
-Chris