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

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Message-ID: <48157812.5090909@nokia.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:09:06 +0300
From:	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>
To:	ext Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...dex.ru>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 26/26] UBIFS: include FS to compilation

ext Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Surely that judgement should be made by people who actually debug UBIFS.

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