Re: [PATCH] MIPS: EARLY_PRINTK: Fixup of dependency

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:15:36AM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:15:36 +0800
> To: Kevin Hickey <khickey@netlogicmicro.com>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
> 	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>,
> 	Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: EARLY_PRINTK: Fixup of dependency
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> 
> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:42 -0600, Kevin Hickey wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 16:30 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:24:57PM +0100, Manuel Lauss wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > This patch will only enable that option when the DEBUG_KERNEL is
> > > > > enabled.
> > > > 
> > > > How about making it independent from DEBUG_KERNEL altogether?  If find
> > > > it useful even without full debug info.
> > 
> > I agree with Manuel here.  I often build release kernels that benefit
> > from EARLY_PRINTK.  Why not make EARLY_PRINTK a selectable option in the
> > config?  Coupling it to DEBUG_KERNEL seems confusing. 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Ralf have moved the EARLY_PRINTK to Kconfig.debug and removed the
> dependency on DEBUG_KERNEL in his -queue repository ;) Just as the X86
> and some other ARCHs does:
> 
> http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux-queue.git
> 
> [...]
> +config EARLY_PRINTK
> +       bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
> +       depends on SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
> +       default y
> [...]
> 
> So, it is okay now, please ignore this patch ;)

Okay, dropped then.

Thanks!

  Ralf