From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Adam M Belay <abelay@mit.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>,
Dann Frazier <dannf@debian.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] PNP debugging rework
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:54:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080820025427.GQ9807@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080819225310.28206.1011.stgit@tigger.helgaas>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 04:53:10PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> These patches add support for a boot-time switch to enable PNP debug
> messages. Currently, users have to recompile with CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG=y
> to get PNP debug messages.
>
> I copied the implementation strategy from Greg KH's USB patches:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/8/529
>
> These patches don't fix any bugs, and I know it's pretty late to
> consider new stuff for 2.6.27. The only reason to even consider them
> is that 2.6.27 includes a significant PNP rewrite, and if 2.6.27 ends
> up in a distro kernel, it will be much easier to work on problems if
> users can collect debug information without rebuilding the kernel.
I would have pushed them up because they look harmless enough,
but after Linus' recent rant on merging windows on linux-kernel I've
reconsidered. Will queue them for .28 in test.
-Andi (Chicken)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 22:53 [PATCH 0/8] PNP debugging rework Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-19 22:53 ` [PATCH 1/8] PNP: fix debug formatting (cosmetic) Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-19 22:53 ` [PATCH 2/8] PNPACPI: use dev_printk when possible Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-19 22:53 ` [PATCH 3/8] PNP: convert the last few pnp_info() uses to printk() Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-19 22:53 ` [PATCH 4/8] PNP: use new vsprintf symbolic function pointer format Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-19 22:53 ` [PATCH 5/8] PNP: remove some uses of DEBUG ifdef Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-19 22:53 ` [PATCH 6/8] PNP: add CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES and pnp_dbg() Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-19 22:53 ` [PATCH 7/8] PNP: convert to using pnp_dbg() Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-19 22:53 ` [PATCH 8/8] PNP: remove old CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG option Bjorn Helgaas
2008-08-20 2:54 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 0/8] PNP debugging rework Bjorn Helgaas
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