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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:49:11 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/34] vfs: Add configuration parser helpers [ver #12]
To:     David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Hi David,

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 11:27 AM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-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

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds