Re: [PATCH] small Kconfig help text correction for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

Felix Oxley
2005-10-12T01:50:48Z

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 02:25, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:22:21PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> Why bother anyway since the original is brief and neat. (yours could be
> s/if/when/ even)

I would definitely agree with Jesper that the current version needs changing.
However, I don't know technically whether it means:

a) you will need an external debugger to get this information
b) this information will be available in the log (etc) and ALSO via an
external debugger

regards,
Felix

>
> > If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
> > - and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information
> > - on some architectures or you use external debuggers.
> > + and slower, but it might give very useful debugging information on
> > + some architectures or if you use external debuggers.
> > If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N.