Re: "PRINTK_DEBUG"?

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   lib/Kconfig.debug:      select PRINTK_DEBUG
> > 
> > should that perhaps refer to "DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG"?  since there is
> > no such thing as a PRINTK_DEBUG Kconfig variable.
> 
> Looks like a rudiment from an earlier version of Jason's "driver core:
> basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages",
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=346e15beb5343c2eb8216d820f2ed8f150822b08
> Search an LKML archive for '+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_DEBUG'.
> 
> Jason, should it be deleted or replaced by something?

We re-named 'DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG' to 'DYNAMIC_DEBUG' in 2.6.30....
'PRINTK_DEBUG' as pointed out never existed. So, it appears to be
extraneous, and should be removed. thanks for pointing it out.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index c6e854f..dd457af 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -891,7 +891,6 @@ config DYNAMIC_DEBUG
 	default n
 	depends on PRINTK
 	depends on DEBUG_FS
-	select PRINTK_DEBUG
 	help
 
 	  Compiles debug level messages into the kernel, which would not