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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] socket: SOCK_DEBUG type checking
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:56:00 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:51:32 -0700

> Use the inline trick (same as pr_debug) to get checking
> of debug statements even if no code is generated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Applied, and I'll push to net-2.6.26 after some build
testing.

Although the use of SOCK_DEBUG is so esoteric and sparse,
I can't see how any of it can be useful for any kind of
debugging.

I'd say we should just remove this thing.