Re: [edk2-platform][PATCH v1 1/1] EmbeddedPkg/VirtualRealTimeClockLib : Reduce DEBUG message verbosity

["Leif Lindholm" <leif@nuviainc.com>]

*How* annoying was this?

This is kind of useful information, well at the "would be good to see
in a regular DEBUG build" level.

This change will have suddenly effectively hidden a message that was
already present in many platforms, where they were not (very) annoyingly
repetitive during a normal boot.

It feels the test suite is not the thing that we need to optimise
debug output for.

Is there some alternative way we can rate limit this?

/
    Leif

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 17:50:43 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 at 17:41, Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud
> <Samer.El-Haj-Mahmoud@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > the DEBUG message for using compilation time epoch is appearing very
> > frequently on DEBUG firmware builds, for example during UEFI SCT runs.
> > Reduce verbosity to avoid the annoying repetitive message.
> >
> > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianocore@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
> > Cc: Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie>
> > Signed-off-by: Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud <Samer.El-Haj-Mahmoud@arm.com>
> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
> 
> Merged as #1434 into master.
> 
> > ---
> >  EmbeddedPkg/Library/VirtualRealTimeClockLib/VirtualRealTimeClockLib.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/EmbeddedPkg/Library/VirtualRealTimeClockLib/VirtualRealTimeClockLib.c b/EmbeddedPkg/Library/VirtualRealTimeClockLib/VirtualRealTimeClockLib.c
> > index 5c13ed4cf190..4210708cff36 100644
> > --- a/EmbeddedPkg/Library/VirtualRealTimeClockLib/VirtualRealTimeClockLib.c
> > +++ b/EmbeddedPkg/Library/VirtualRealTimeClockLib/VirtualRealTimeClockLib.c
> > @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ LibGetTime (
> >      //
> >      EpochSeconds = BUILD_EPOCH;
> >      DEBUG ((
> > -      DEBUG_INFO,
> > +      DEBUG_VERBOSE,
> >        "LibGetTime: %s non volatile variable was not found - Using compilation time epoch.\n",
> >        mEpochVariableName
> >        ));
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >