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

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Sun Feb 21 10:50:27 UTC 2021


On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 at 22:46, Leif Lindholm <leif at 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.


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