Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261879AbUDNVtg (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:49:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261888AbUDNVtg (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:49:36 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([209.173.204.2]:45441 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261879AbUDNVtd (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:49:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:49:00 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH] conditionalize some boring buffer_head checks Message-ID: <20040414214900.GI1175@waste.org> References: <407CEB91.1080503@pobox.com> <20040414005832.083de325.akpm@osdl.org> <20040414010240.0e9f4115.akpm@osdl.org> <407CF201.408@pobox.com> <20040414011653.22c690d9.akpm@osdl.org> <407CFFF9.5010500@pobox.com> <20040414212539.GE1175@waste.org> <20040414213336.GC30663@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040414213336.GC30663@havoc.gtf.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1244 Lines: 28 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. -- Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting - 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/