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It's hard for someone (like me) who's not following closely to know what the suggested best practices are for error printing in DRM drivers. Add some hints to the header file. In general, my understanding is that: * When possible we should be using a `struct drm_device` for logging and recent patches have tried to make it more possible to access a relevant `struct drm_device` in more places. * For most cases when we don't have a `struct drm_device`, we no longer bother with DRM-specific wrappers on the dev_...() functions or pr_...() functions and just encourage drivers to use the normal functions. * For debug-level functions where we might want filtering based on a category we'll still have DRM-specific wrappers, but we'll only support passing a `struct drm_device`, not a `struct device`. Presumably most of the cases where we want the filtering are messages that happen while the system is in a normal running state (AKA not during probe time) and we should have a `struct drm_device` then. If we absolutely can't get a `struct drm_device` then these functions begrudgingly accept NULL for the `struct drm_device` and hopefully the awkwardness of having to manually pass NULL will keep people from doing this unless absolutely necessary. Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Acked-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210921082757.RFC.1.Ibd82d98145615fa55f604947dc6a696cc82e8e43@changeid |
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Linux kernel
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