On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 21:43, Leif Lindholm <l...@nuviainc.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 11:50:27 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 at 22:46, Leif Lindholm <l...@nuviainc.com> wrote: > > > > > > *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? > > > > Given that the sole purpose of this library is to paper over the fact > > that the platform violates the spec, and lacks the ability to tell > > time, I think it makes little sense to obsess over how wrong the value > > is that it returns. > > I'm not obsessing about anything, I'm saying that using tediousness > when running a testsuite as an argument, potential issues with the > only aspect that makes this implementation useful without having to > rebuild firmware every few weeks are now hidden. > > If we truly don't care about the feature, nuke it. Don't hide when it > breaks. >
Nuke what exactly? I think the library has a use, I simply don't see the point of reporting 25-50 times every boot that no timestamp was recorded in a variable. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#71898): https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/71898 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79110001/21656 Group Owner: devel+ow...@edk2.groups.io Unsubscribe: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
