[PATCH] log: Tidy up documentation
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Wed Oct 14 03:55:07 CEST 2020
Fix up the documentation which was lost in a merge conflict in the
conversion to RST.
Fixes: 52d3df7fefe ("log: Allow LOG_DEBUG to always enable log output")
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
doc/develop/logging.rst | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/develop/logging.rst b/doc/develop/logging.rst
index 7ce8482ab6d..28340a4aac7 100644
--- a/doc/develop/logging.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/logging.rst
@@ -83,11 +83,8 @@ 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 (LOGL_DEBUG) or more. Otherwise
-debug output is suppressed and will not be generated.
+the top of the file, before any #includes. This overrides any log-level setting
+in U-Boot, including CONFIG_LOG_DEFAULT_LEVEL, but just for that file.
Convenience functions
@@ -111,6 +108,12 @@ LOG_CATEGORY, which you can only define once per file, above all #includes, e.g.
#define LOG_CATEGORY LOGC_ALLOC
+or
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ #define LOG_CATEGORY UCLASS_SPI
+
Remember that all uclasses IDs are log categories too.
--
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