Re: [GIT PULL] tracing/urgent for v2.6.31

Steven Rostedt
2009-06-11T03:31:35Z

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I think defaulting CONFIG_FTRACE to 'y' is dubious too, but at least
> that's not a new feature as much as a new config option making other
> config options visible. But again, I do think it should likely default to
> off, even so.

Well it was:

default y if DEBUG_KERNEL

Where the rational was that if you want to debug the kernel, you might
want to see some tracing features that are available to you.

-- Steve