From: Kevin Hickey <khickey@netlogicmicro.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>,
Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>,
Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: EARLY_PRINTK: Fixup of dependency
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:42:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259160138.4675.14.camel@kh-d280-64> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091124163006.GA11277@linux-mips.org>
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.
=Kevin
>
> DEBUG_INFO controlls the generation of ELF debug information. DEBUG_KERNEL
> only hides most of the debugging options.
>
> Ralf
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-25 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-24 9:33 [PATCH] MIPS: EARLY_PRINTK: Fixup of dependency Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-24 16:24 ` Manuel Lauss
2009-11-24 16:30 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-25 14:42 ` Kevin Hickey [this message]
2009-11-25 16:15 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-25 16:19 ` Ralf Baechle
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