Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761746AbXKMUIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:08:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757789AbXKMUIO (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:08:14 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:35154 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753663AbXKMUIM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:08:12 -0500 Message-ID: <473A0412.4030005@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:07:46 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Theodore Tso , Larry Finger , Benoit Boissinot , Mark Lord , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , David Miller , protasnb@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs References: <20071113031553.3c7b5c16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.033946.114918709.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113034916.2556edd7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113.035824.40509981.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113041259.79c9a8c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113134029.GA30978@elte.hu> <4739AFE0.20705@rtr.ca> <40f323d00711130752k19cab8eauc3456721274b3267@mail.gmail.com> <20071113171356.GA25824@thunk.org> <4739DFF8.3090702@lwfinger.net> <20071113185547.GC25824@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20071113185547.GC25824@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 23 Theodore Tso wrote: > > Heh. I hadn't enabled CONFIG_BCM43XX_DEBUG myself, but I just changed > it for my next kernel build. This is a slightly different issue, > which is that sometimes _DEBUG options shouldn't be turned on by > default (because they really trash performance and bloat log size), > and sometimes they are painless to turn on and don't cost much. > > If that is the case, I'd suggest removing the option and just making > it compiled in by default with a run-time option to enable it. I am taking your suggestion and will produce the necessary patches for ssb, b43 and b43legacy. As bcm43xx is likely to be removed from 2.6.25, which is the earliest such a non-bug fix patch would be accepted, I hope that your future distribution and testing kernels will include the debug option. Thanks, Larry - 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/