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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] PM: Remove PM_TRACE from Kconfig
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:24:23 +0200
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On Thursday 17 August 2006 06:40, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:14:11PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Remove the CONFIG_PM_TRACE option, which is dangerous and should only b=
e used
> > by people who know exactly what they are doing, from Kconfig.
> =

> No, don't remove this, that's not acceptable at all.  This is useful for
> others (and one specifically who will be pissed to see this removed...)

Well, this was a Pavel's idea. ;-)

However, it does some harm to users.  I was hit by it personally and there's
been at least one report related to it on LKML recently.

Still I think we can just mark it as dangerous or something like that, which
was my initial idea.

Greetings,
Rafael


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