Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275358AbTHMUSe (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:18:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275363AbTHMUSe (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:18:34 -0400 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:521 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275358AbTHMUSc (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:18:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 22:18:29 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: George Anzinger Cc: Thomas Schlichter , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm1 Message-ID: <20030813201829.GA15012@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: George Anzinger , Thomas Schlichter , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20030809203943.3b925a0e.akpm@osdl.org> <200308101941.33530.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> <3F37DFDC.6080308@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F37DFDC.6080308@mvista.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 21 On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:26:36AM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > >that patch sets DEBUG_INFO to y by default, even if whether DEBUG_KERNEL > >nor KGDB is enabled. The attached patch changes this to enable DEBUG_INFO > >by default only if KGDB is enabled. > > Looks good to me, but.... just what does this turn on? Its been a > long time and me thinks a wee comment here would help me remember next > time. DEBUG_INFO add "-g" to CFLAGS. Main reason to introduce this was that many architectures always use "-g", so a config option seemed more appropriate. I do not agree that this should be dependent on KGDB. To my knowledge -g is useful also without using kgdb. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/