From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261891AbTDHVvR (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:51:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261893AbTDHVvR (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:51:17 -0400 Received: from trained-monkey.org ([209.217.122.11]:64516 "EHLO trained-monkey.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261891AbTDHVvQ (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:51:16 -0400 To: Pavel Machek Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Martin Hicks , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wildos@sgi.com Subject: Re: [patch] printk subsystems References: <20030407201337.GE28468@bork.org> <20030408184109.GA226@elf.ucw.cz> <20030408210251.GA30588@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <3E933AB2.8020306@zytor.com> <20030408215703.GA1538@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 08 Apr 2003 18:02:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030408215703.GA1538@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek writes: Pavel> Well, #define DEBUG in the driver seems like the way to go. I Pavel> do not like "subsystem ID" idea, because subsystems are not Pavel> really well defined etc. Which doesn't solve the problem as this means the end user will have to recompile his/her kernel to debug things. When Joe Random is sitting with his favorite distro CD trying to install it on a brand new motherboard doing funky things in it's ACPI routing or something like that, it's very useful for SuSE/Red Hat/Mandrake/Debian etc. to be able to instruct him to set this debug flag and tell them what happens. Cheers, Jes