linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/34] vfs: Add configuration parser helpers [ver #12]

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Message-ID: <21986.1552559249@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:27:29 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        mszeredi@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/34] vfs: Add configuration parser helpers [ver #12]

Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:

> When would I want to disable this?
> 
> It seems this option was introduced in "ver #10" of your patch series,
> without being mentioned in the changelog for that version.

Sorry, yes - it's a debugging tool to check that the parser tables are vaguely
sane.  I set it to default to 'Y' for the moment to catch errors in upcoming
fs conversion development.  You probably want to disable it if you're not
doing fs conversion.

David