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

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVgGUrPZAS8hT3sKMSBi8rNYu6zZ8AKBV2wRyhe8PWHTw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:49:11 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     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]

Hi David,

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:27 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> 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.

OK thanks. Makes perfect sense, now I see the output of

        pr_notice("*** VALIDATE %s ***\n", name);

in my boot test.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
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