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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: ggrundstrom@neteffect.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ewg@lists.openfabrics.org,
	general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 13/14 v2] nes: kernel build infrastructure
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:23:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adar6jn99ah.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710192027.l9JKR197021855@neteffect.com> (ggrundstrom@neteffect.com's message of "Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:27:01 -0500")

 > +config INFINIBAND_NES_DEBUG
 > +	bool "Verbose debugging output"
 > +	depends on INFINIBAND_NES
 > +	default n
 > +	---help---
 > +	  This option causes the NetEffect RNIC driver to produce debug
 > +	  messages.  Select this if you are developing the driver
 > +	  or trying to diagnose a problem.

If you make this default n then no distro will have it enabled and
you'll have to rebuild to debug anything.  Better to have the default
be enabled and make it controllable at runtime too with a module
parameter.  (you can look at what mthca does for an example of what I mean)

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19 20:27 [ofa-general] [PATCH 13/14 v2] nes: kernel build infrastructure ggrundstrom
2007-10-22  2:23 ` Roland Dreier [this message]

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