linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/9] ext4: Add -DDEBUG to Makefile

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Message-ID: <4F677F6C.8030902@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:48:12 -0700
From:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] ext4: Add -DDEBUG to Makefile

On 03/18/2012 09:39 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:03:57AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
>>
>> In many other susbsystems/drivers, the definition of DEBUG is gated
>> by a separate Kconfig symbol used to select debugging just for that
>> susbsystem/driver (see CONFIG_MMC_DEBUG for example).
>
> In ext4 we have many different debugging patches, and in general you'd
> never want to enable them all at once (you'd get way too much noise).
> The debugging statements are there when a developer is debugging very
> specific section of code (i.e., the directory index, or the extent
> tree, or the block allocator, etc.).  It's really only ext4 developers
> who need to use those debugging statements, and even for them it's
> quite rare.
>
> So I've never considered it worthwhile to enable them via a CONFIG_*
> menu item; developers who are debugging a specific problem will
> generally just drop in the specific #define on an ad hoc basis, and
> that works fine.
>

If you want to unconditionally define DEBUG for all of ext4, that is 
fine with me.

I was just noting that it seemed a little odd to me, and different from 
what is done elsewhere.

Thanks,
David Daney
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