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

Linus Torvalds
2009-06-11T03:49:20Z

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> 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.

Sure. I think that FTRACE config is borderline fine, although I think
tracing is pretty different from the debug options that don't need the
user to actually do anything (like PAGEALLOC_DEBUG).

It's the other ones I think were clearly dubious (ok, the MARKERS one
isn't "clearly" dubious, since I have no idea why it got enabled, so I
guess it would count as "unclearly dubious" then).

Linus