From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:10:29 -0700

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:32:48 -0700
Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

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+static int debug = -1;
+module_param(debug, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Debug level (0=none,...,16=all)");  

Maybe make debug a bitfield instead?

No Joe, this is the standard mapping of debug to msglevel used
by most network devices. The debug parameter is converted
to mask by netif_msg_init.

Correct.