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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:07:34 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
       Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.22-git] dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:30:49 -0700 David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> This defines a dev_vdbg() call, which is enabled with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG.
> When enabled, dev_vdbg() acts just like dev_dbg().  When disabled, it
> is a NOP ... just like dev_dbg() without -DDEBUG.  The specific code
> was moved out of a USB patch, but lots of drivers have similar support.

I suppose we should find some way of telling people about this.  Maybe
in the `make help' output?