Re: [PATCH 0/5] scmi: Log client subsystem entity counts

Sudeep Holla <[email protected]>
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Message-ID <20260514-finicky-acoustic-flounder-2dd405@sudeepholla>
On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 08:48:19AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 11:27:21AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 5/13/26 11:02, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > +Greg (I believe the trend is to drop such messages and not add them [back]?)
> > > 
> > 
> > Is there some common guidance on this ? I'd be all for dropping messages
> > instead of adding them, but there seems to be a perpetual battle between
> > people who want to log everything and people concerned about logging noise.
> > As maintainer I always seem to be stuck between those two camps.
> 
> When drivers work properly, they should be quiet.  This patch series
> adds a bunch of dev_info() calls, which is not ok.  If a developer wants
> to see extra messages, use the dev_dbg() infrastructure, or the tracing
> infrastructure, both of which are there for this very reason.
> 

I completely agree and tend to follow that. But I always assumed it was
left to maintainers taste.

> So yes, I agree with Andy, this series is not ok, don't make more noise
> please.
> 

I am now thinking if [1] was the one setting example for this series. I did
ack it as I left it to the subsystem maintainer's choice(in this case author
as well).

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Regards,
Sudeep

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
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