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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>,
	Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ppc: don't override CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES_DEBUG
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:14:23 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287101663.4194.5.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287078495-11722-1-git-send-email-nacc@us.ibm.com>

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On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:48 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> These files undef DEBUG, but I think they were added before the ability
> to control this from Kconfig. 

Perhaps. Some people, *cough*, have a tendency to merge those back in
again from time to time :)

> It's really annoying to only get some of the debug messages!

True, but ..

> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
> 
> ---
> Because the lpar and pci_dlpar code is pretty low-level & verbose,
> perhaps it makes sense to add another Kconfig variable for really
> low-level stuff? But it's annoying to have DEBUG *somewhat* effective,
> especially in the EEH area when doing PCI stuff.

I really don't think you want to enable the lpar debug by default. Have
you tried it? It can make for a pretty unusable system, just because of
the console spam.

Also these days there is CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG which is much smarter than
all this, but requires setup at runtime.

cheers


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14 17:48 [RFC PATCH] ppc: don't override CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES_DEBUG Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-10-15  0:14 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2010-10-15  0:23   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2010-10-15  0:29     ` Michael Ellerman
2010-10-15  1:47 ` Linas Vepstas

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