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

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 09:08:01AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> 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 :)

Hm I think we're a few threads further already? Steven Rostedt has jumped
in now too ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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