linux-kernel - Re: the usage of DEBUG

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Message-ID: <45F169CA.3000106@yandex.ru>
Date:	Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:06:02 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...dex.ru>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
CC:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: the usage of DEBUG_DRIVER seems ambiguous

Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>   it's clearly a configuration variable, but it's also being used by
>> itself in a few drivers/net/ source files.  is that deliberate?
> 
> The ones in drivers/net/ are just local driver debug controls.
> They happen to have the same name as a (likely newer) kconfig symbol.
> 
> Is there a real problem that needs to be fixed?

Renaming them just for the sake of being less confusing makes sense.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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