Re: [2.6 patch] DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE for i386 (fwd)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:57:05PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Roman,

> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > I simply did it as on other architectures.
> > 
> > Do you want the following?
> > 
> > config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
> >         bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if EMBEDDED
> >         depends on (DEBUG_KERNEL || EMBEDDED=n) && (ARM || ...)
> > 	default y
> 
> What are you trying to do here?

- if EMBEDDED=n, always enable it
- if EMBEDDED=y:
  - disable if DEBUG_KERNEL=n
  - ask if DEBUG_KERNEL=y

> I guess you want something more like this?
> 
> config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
> 	bool "Verbose BUG() reporting (adds 70K)" if DEBUG_KERNEL && EMBEDDED
> 	depends on ARM || ...
> 	default y

This has a different semantics:

If you want no kernel debugging in an embedded environment, 
DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE would be automatically enabled.

This is definitely not intended.

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

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