Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932494AbVIHAwi (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:52:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932490AbVIHAwi (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:52:38 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:29825 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932483AbVIHAwh (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:52:37 -0400 Message-ID: <431F8B46.8020209@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:52:22 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: netdev@axxeo.de, akpm@osdl.org, pavel@ucw.cz, ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com, pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] ipw2100: remove by-hand function entry/exit debugging References: <20050906.194111.130652562.davem@davemloft.net> <431E5514.2070003@pobox.com> <200509071539.08780.netdev@axxeo.de> <20050907.130151.71544363.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050907.130151.71544363.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 29 David S. Miller wrote: > From: Ingo Oeser > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:39:08 +0200 > > >>Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >>>I find them useful in my own drivers; they are definitely not pure noise. >> >>gcc -finstrument-functions > > > I was going to mention this as well, and also the idea to > enable CONFIG_MCOUNT on a per-file basis. > > We should never be doing by hand what can be automated. As long as nobody breaks the primary maintainer's primary method of debugging, patches are welcome... Jeff - 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/