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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:36:01 +0300 From: Felipe Balbi <me@...ipebalbi.com> To: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl> Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [00/03] [RFC] USB debugging rework On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:57:58AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > I've been annoyed for a long time that we make users go off and rebuild > > their kernels just to enable usb debug messages. So finally, here's the > > start of fixing that issue. > > Will your patches also allow to turn off the usb debugging at some point, > for example after system boot has been completed if the debugging was > only needed to analyze a boot issue? > > I noticed earlier this week that USB debugging will really flood the > syslog and had to rebuild my -rc2 kernel without debugging and reboot to > get rid of it. AFAICT with your patches only rebooting would be needed, > but it would be even nicer if it also could be turned off (and on?) using > a sysfs parameter. no rebooting. Just rmmod and modprobe again with the parameter set to 0, although a sysfs file would be nice, or maybe allowing the /sys/module/*/parameters/* to be writable :-) I think that should be done in driver core. -- balbi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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