Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:49:00 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] conditionalize some boring buffer_head checks |
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:33:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:25:39PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > Sticking this in arch/*/Kconfig seems silly (as does much of the > > duplication in said files). Can we stick this and other debug bits > > under the kallsyms option in init/Kconfig instead? Or alternately move > > debugging bits into their own file that gets included as appropriate. > > I would rather have an arch/generic/Kconfig.debug file that gets > included. init/Kconfig may be generic, but its name hardly implies its > purpose as used.
Yes, and it's rather a dumping ground too.
> There are clearly two classes of debug options, one arch-specific, and > one not.
There is a third class of options that aren't intrinsically arch-specific, but are currently implemented on only a subset of architectures (eg kgdb), that I would argue properly belong in the generic debug section.
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