linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 26/26] UBIFS: include FS to compilation

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Message-ID: <20080426093553.GA17730@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:35:53 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...dex.ru>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 26/26] UBIFS: include FS to compilation

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:51:50AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> But these don't make much sense to me. Why would you want to be able
>> to compile out printks at this granularity? Why not enable all of them
>> when CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_DEBUG is enabled?
>
> Well, its just more convenient for us. If I know the bug is somewhere in
> the journal, I enable the journal messages - less flooding. We may
> lessen the amount, but it is still handy to have some classes of
> prints separate.

It's everything but convenient :)  Please make it one config option to
compile in all debug code and then have a module option to select the
verbosity level at runtime.

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