On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 04:42:37AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > CONFIG_MLX4_DEBUG works out to a def_bool y for those that
> > have CONFIG_EMBEDDED set. Make it depend on MLX4_CORE..
>
> Thanks, applied... (by the way, this bug just results in an
> extraneous CONFIG variable being defined, right? There's no further
> breakage -- or am I misunderstanding the situation?)
>
Correct, there was no real breakage, just the extraneous variable.
SLUB_DEBUG had the same symptoms, which is why I referenced it ;-)
> > I'll let someone else wonder why debugging output is default enabled,
> > this seems to be a worrying trend as of late.
>
> Actually this option just controls whether to build the debugging
> output at all. The output is controlled at runtime with a module
> parameter (which can be changed via sysfs after the module is loaded),
> and the output defaults to off.
>
> The reason why I want building the debugging stuff to default to y is
> so that distros automatically build modules with debugging enabled.
> Otherwise it's a pain to try and gather info from someone who has
> problems with a kernel they didn't build.
>
That's more reasonable at least. Thanks for the clarification.
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