netdev - Re: [PATCH] socket: SOCK

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Message-Id: <20080321.155600.121386813.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:56:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] socket: SOCK_DEBUG type checking

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:51:32 -0700

> Use the inline trick (same as pr_debug) to get checking
> of debug statements even if no code is generated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied, and I'll push to net-2.6.26 after some build
testing.

Although the use of SOCK_DEBUG is so esoteric and sparse,
I can't see how any of it can be useful for any kind of
debugging.

I'd say we should just remove this thing.
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