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    dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG · aebdc3b4
    David Brownell authored
    This defines a dev_vdbg() call, which is enabled with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG.
    When enabled, dev_vdbg() acts just like dev_dbg().  When disabled, it is a
    NOP ...  just like dev_dbg() without -DDEBUG.  The specific code was moved
    out of a USB patch, but lots of drivers have similar support.
    
    That is, code can now be written to use an additional level of debug
    output, selected at compile time.  Many driver authors have found this
    idiom to be very useful.  A typical usage model is for "normal" debug
    messages to focus on fault paths and not be very "chatty", so that those
    messages can be left on during normal operation without much of a
    performance or syslog load.  On the other hand "verbose" messages would be
    noisy enough that they wouldn't normally be enabled; they might even affect
    timings enough to change system or driver behavior.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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