On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:15:58PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 15:51 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:30:50PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 22:07 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > > 2: Create some comedi logging functions or macros like:
> > > > >    	comedi_<level>(fmt, arg...) (ie: comedi_info, comedi_err, etc)
> > > > >    where "comedi:" is always prefixed and an
> > > > >    optional #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
> > > > >    could be used.
> > 
> > > I would prefer the conversion of everything over to the dev_printk()
> > > versions instead of creating a new macro for every individual subsystem.
> > > That way you get the advantage of logging everything in the common
> > > format and the dynamic debug functionality as well.
> > 
> > What I posted has dynamic_debug.
> > 
> > +#elif defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG)
> > +/* dynamic_pr_debug() uses pr_fmt() internally so we don't need it here */
> > +#define comedi_debug(fmt, ...)                         \
> > +       dynamic_pr_debug(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> > 
> > As far as I know, comedi doesn't always take a struct device *.
> > I believe it's only used when there's a DMA.
> 
> No, there's a struct device down in the device almost always.
> 
> > In struct comedi_device, there are two struct device *'s.
> > 
> > 	struct device *class_dev;
> > ...
> > 	struct device *hw_dev;
> 
> hw_dev is what we want to use.

Perhaps Ian or Frank might clarify if
that's reasonable.  It doesn't look like
it to me.

Look at comedi_set_hw_dev.
See how often it's used?


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