linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Use EXT4FS_DEBUG instead of EXT4

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Date:	Sun, 8 May 2011 21:55:06 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Use EXT4FS_DEBUG instead of EXT4_DEBUG in fsync.c

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:41:12PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
> 
> We have EXT4FS_DEBUG for some old debug and CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
> for the new mballoc debug, but there isn't any EXT4_DEBUG.
> 
> As CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG seems to be only used in mballoc, use
> EXT4FS_DEBUG in fsync.c.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>

It doesn't really matter; although I'm including this patch in the
ext4 tree for consistency's sake.  The whole point of the #ifdef's is
to disable the debugging code.  In general you don't want to enable
all of the code protected by EXT4FS_DEBUG at the same time.

						- Ted
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