From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758388AbYJQSus (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:50:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758014AbYJQStb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:49:31 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50473 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758006AbYJQSta (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:49:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:01:33 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jason Baron Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@elte.hu, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches for your 2.6-git tree Message-ID: <20081017180133.GB2429@suse.de> References: <20081016170954.GA11824@kroah.com> <20081017153151.GB3167@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081017153151.GB3167@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:31:51AM -0400, Jason Baron wrote: > > One concern, raised in the other thread was that subsystems might want > to use their own defined tags, as opposed to KBUILD_MODNAME, which is > used by default to group together debugging control. Layering this tag > ability on top of this patchset is not hard, and I already have patches > which begin to do that. That sounds like a useful thing to have. > Also, this patch allows passing one command line argument to enable > all debugging which can later be turn on/off as desired. This patch > already stands on its own in enabling all pr_debug and dev_dbg calls > to be dynamically enabled. I tried turning everything on once. The output was almost unusable, you pretty much always want to be able to pick and choose what you want enabled otherwise you drown in irrelevant data :) thanks, greg k-h