Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:27:59 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "'Jason Baron'" <jbaron@redhat.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com, greg@kroah.com,
       nick@nick-andrew.net, randy.dunlap@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] dynamic debug
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On Mon 2008-06-16 11:26:12, Takashi Nishiie wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Jason Baron wrote:
> >Each kernel sub-system seems to have its own way of dealing with 
> >debugging statements. Some of these methods include 'dprintk', 
> >'pr_debug', 'dev_debug', 'DEBUGP'. There are also a myriad of 
> >ways of enabling these statements. 
> 
>  I propose to replace 'Pr_debug', 'Dev_debug', and 'DEBUGP' with 
> kernel markers. SystemTap is used for the output of the log.  

...which would make them unusable. You down want people trying to
debug kernel problems install/configure systemtap...

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