Re: [PATCH 2/5] objtool: Combine '--backtrace' with '--verbose'

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 28 2023 - 04:07:56 EST


On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 09:00:45AM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Get rid of the '--backtrace' option, instead including that
> functionality in '--verbose'. This makes it easy to gather all the
> information needed for diagnosing objtool warnings.

Hurmm.. can't we have verbose imply backtrace but keep the separate
option? I'm not sure if I always want the objdump thing -- esp with
multiple warnings on vmlinux that's going to be really slow -- better to
dump the whole of vmlinux.o once at the end.