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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/develop/logging.rst | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/log.h | 3 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/develop/logging.rst b/doc/develop/logging.rst index 51095b05ba9..704a6bf1d84 100644 --- a/doc/develop/logging.rst +++ b/doc/develop/logging.rst @@ -66,26 +66,21 @@ Sometimes it is useful to turn on logging just in one file. You can use this #define LOG_DEBUG to enable building in of all logging statements in a single file. Put it at -the top of the file, before any #includes. - -To actually get U-Boot to output this you need to also set the default logging -level - e.g. set CONFIG_LOG_DEFAULT_LEVEL to 7 (:c:data:`LOGL_DEBUG`) or more. -Otherwise debug output is suppressed and will not be generated. +the top of the file, before any #includes and any message in the file will be +written, regardless of the value of CONFIG_LOG_DEFAULT_LEVEL. Using DEBUG ----------- U-Boot has traditionally used a #define called DEBUG to enable debugging on a -file-by-file basis. The debug() macro compiles to a printf() statement if -DEBUG is enabled, and an empty statement if not. +file-by-file basis but LOG_DEBUG are intended to replace it with the logging +facilities; DEBUG is activated when LOG_DEBUG is activated. With logging enabled, debug() statements are interpreted as logging output -with a level of LOGL_DEBUG and a category of LOGC_NONE. +with a level of LOGL_DEBUG and a category of LOG_CATEGORY. -The logging facilities are intended to replace DEBUG, but if DEBUG is defined -at the top of a file, then it takes precedence. This means that debug() -statements will result in output to the console and this output will not be -logged. +With logging disabled, the debug() macro compiles to a printf() statement +if DEBUG is enabled and to an empty statement if not. Logging statements ------------------ diff --git a/include/log.h b/include/log.h index 8f35c10abb5..7abc70e4398 100644 --- a/include/log.h +++ b/include/log.h @@ -194,6 +194,9 @@ int _log_buffer(enum log_category_t cat, enum log_level_t level, #ifdef LOG_DEBUG #define _LOG_DEBUG LOGL_FORCE_DEBUG +#ifndef DEBUG +#define DEBUG +#endif #else #define _LOG_DEBUG 0 #endif |