[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/bnxt: make driver less verbose

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 8/25/2016 8:03 PM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com
> <mailto:ferruh.yigit at intel.com>> wrote:
> 
>     This line printed for every application even if driver is not used at
>     all. Removing the line to reduce the noise.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com
>     <mailto:ferruh.yigit at intel.com>>
>     ---
>      drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c | 1 -
>      1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
>     diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c
>     b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c
>     index 3795fac..37d0322 100644
>     --- a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c
>     +++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c
>     @@ -1056,7 +1056,6 @@ static struct eth_driver bnxt_rte_pmd = {
> 
>      static int bnxt_rte_pmd_init(const char *name, const char *params
>     __rte_unused)
>      {
>     -       RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "bnxt_rte_pmd_init() called for %s\n", name);
> 
> How about changing the log level to DEBUG?
> 
> -       RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "bnxt_rte_pmd_init() called for %s\n", name);
> +       RTE_LOG(DEBUG, PMD, "bnxt_rte_pmd_init() called for %s\n", name);
> 
> That should reduce the noise till the user explicitly changes the log level.

This will give similar result, this log is useless if you are not
debugging this driver, but debug log level can be enabled for many reasons.

Other drivers use PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE() macros, which requires
specifically enabled in config for that driver.

> 
> Thanks
> ​
>  
> 
>             rte_eth_driver_register(&bnxt_rte_pmd);
>             return 0;
>      }
>     --
>     2.7.4
> 
>